Global dynamics of a SD oscillator

Abstract

In this paper we derive the global bifurcation diagrams of a SD oscillator which exhibits both smooth and discontinuous dynamics depending on the value of a parameter a. We research all possible bifurcations of this system, including Pitchfork bifurcation, degenerate Hopf bifurcation, Homoclinic bifurcation, Double limit cycle bifurcation, Bautin bifurcation and Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation. Besides we prove that the system has at most five limit cycles. At last, we give all numerical phase portraits to illustrate our results.