| Article ID: | iaor20121241 |
| Volume: | 82 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 533 |
| End Page Number: | 539 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Journal: | Mathematics and Computers in Simulation |
| Authors: | Buzzi C A, Llibre J, Medrado J C |
| Keywords: | simulation: applications |
We study the bifurcation of limit cycles from the periodic orbits of a four‐dimensional center in a class of piecewise linear differential systems with two zones. Our main result shows that three is an upper bound for the number of limit cycles that bifurcate from a center, up to first order expansion of the displacement function. Moreover, this upper bound is reached. The main technique used is the averaging method.