On the Number of Limit Cycles in Generalized Abel Equations with Coefficients Having the Chebyshev Property
arXiv:2608.15618
2026
Dynamics
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The paper develops a constructive mechanism for counting isolated periodic solutions of generalized Abel equations with coefficients drawn from Chebyshev families. Its transferable asset is a zero-count certificate: a nonzero linear combination of a d-dimensional Chebyshev family has at most d minus 1 zeros, while Melnikov functions locate periodic-orbit bifurcations. This can be transferred to latent neural ODEs or recurrent state-space models by constraining time-dependent drift coefficients to a Chebyshev basis and monitoring the Poincare residual. The main benefit is a falsifiable bound on latent-cycle capacity, not a generic claim of improved benchmark accuracy.
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2026
Parameterize the time-dependent coefficients of a latent neural ODE in a Chebyshev system instead of an unconstrained neural network, and train the resulting Poincare residual to have a prescribed number of simple zeros. If the relevant Melnikov function belongs to a certified Chebyshev span, the model obtains an explicit upper bound on the number of isolated periodic latent trajectories and limits uncontrolled oscillatory behavior.
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