The Center and Cyclicity Problems: A Computational Algebra Approach - Tapa blanda

From the reviews:

“This book treats in detail the problem of computing the center conditions and the cyclicity ... . The book is written very clearly and ... entirely self-contained. This makes it quite approachable for beginning researchers as well as a reference for those who know the area well. ... furnished with a large number of exercises and examples, together with pseudo-code for the computations. An appendix gives some of these routines in Mathematica. Altogether an ideal book for those wishing to start research in this area.” (Colin J. Christopher, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2010 h)

“The primary object in this interesting book is to study small-amplitude periodic solutions of planar polynomial autonomous systems which concerns the Poincare center (center-focus) problem and the cyclicity problem (the local 16th Hilbert problem). ... the book is designed for the use as a primary textbook in an advanced graduate course ... . The book is of interest not only for those working in the field of differential equations, but also for researches from the field of computational algebra and symbolic computation ... .” (Alexander Grin, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1192, 2010)

Using a computational algebra approach, this work addresses the center and cyclicity problems as behaviors of dynamical systems and families of polynomial systems. The self-contained text contains exercises as well as historical notes and algorithms.