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Abstract. The creation or destruction of a crossing limit cycle when a sliding segment changes its stability, is known as pseudo-Hopf bifurcation. In this paper, under generic conditions, we find an unfolding for such bifurcation, and we prove the existence and uniqueness of a crossing limit cycle for this family.

The boundary crossing theorem and the zero exclusion principle are very useful tools in the study of the stability of family of polynomials. Although both of these theorem seem intuitively obvious, they can be used for proving important results. In this paper, we give generalizations of these two theorems and we apply such generalizations for finding the maximal stability interval.

Given an m-parameterized family of n-dimensional vector fields, such that: (i) for some value of the parameters, the family has an equilibrium point, (ii) its linearization has a double zero eigenvalue and no other eigenvalue on the imaginary axis, sufficient conditions on the vector field are given such that the dynamics on the two-dimensional center manifold is locally topologically equivalent to the versal deformation of the planar Takens–Bogdanov bifurcation.

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