Paper 4, Section I, D

Dynamical Systems
Part II, 2010

Consider the 2-dimensional flow

x˙=y+14x(12x22y2),y˙=x+12y(1x2y2)\dot{x}=y+\frac{1}{4} x\left(1-2 x^{2}-2 y^{2}\right), \quad \dot{y}=-x+\frac{1}{2} y\left(1-x^{2}-y^{2}\right)

Use the Poincaré-Bendixson theorem, which should be stated carefully, to obtain a domain D\mathcal{D} in the xyx y-plane, within which there is at least one periodic orbit.