Uniqueness of limit cycles for Liénard differential equations of degree four

AbstractWe prove that any classical Liénard differential equation of degree four has at most one limit cycle, and the limit cycle is hyperbolic if it exists. This result gives a positive answer to the conjecture by A. Lins, W. de Melo and C.C. Pugh (1977) [4] about the number of limit cycles for polynomial Liénard differential equations for n=4