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In this paper, Hopf bifurcation for a class of three-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems is studied, a new algorithm of the formal series for the flow on center manifold is discussed, from this, a recursion formula for computation of the singular point quantities is obtained for the corresponding bifurcation equation, which is linear and then avoids complex integrating operations, therefore the calculation can be readily done with using computer symbol operation system such as Mathematica, and more the algebraic equivalence of the singular point quantities and corresponding focal values is proved, thus Hopf bifurcation can be considered easily. Finally an example is studied, by computing the singular point quantities and constructing a bifurcation function, the existence of 5 limit cycles bifurcated from the origin for the flow on center manifold is proved.

This paper is concerned with the number of limit cycles for a quartic polynomial Z3-equivariant vector fields. The system under consideration has a fine focus point at the origin, and three fine focus points which are symmetric about the origin. By the computation of the singular point values, sixteen limit cycles are found and their distributions are studied by using the new methods of bifurcation theory and qualitative analysis. This is a new result in the study of the second part of the 16th Hilbert problem. It gives rise to the conclusion: H ( 4 ) ⩾ 16 , where H ( n ) is the Hilbert number for the second part of Hilbert's 16th problem. The process of the proof is algebraic and symbolic. As far as know, the technique employed in this work is different from more usual ones, the calculation can be readily done with using computer symbol operation system such as Mathematica.