Projective limit cycles

Evilson Vieira | Movasati, Hossein

Keywords: holomorphic foliations | holonomy | vanishing cycle

In this article we study projective cycles in $\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{R}$. Our inspiring example is the Jouanolou foliation of odd degree which has a hyperbolic projective limit cycle. We prove that only odd degree foliations may have projective cycles and foliations with exactly one real simple singularity have a projective cycle. We also prove that after a perturbation of a generic Hamiltonian foliation with a projective cycle, we have a projective limit cycle if and only if the perturbation is not Hamiltonian.

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• movasati-vieira.pdf