Bifurcation of limit cycles from a heteroclinic loop with a cusp Original Research Article

In this article, we study the expansion of the first Melnikov function of a near-Hamiltonian system near a heteroclinic loop with a cusp and a saddle or two cusps, obtaining formulas to compute the first coefficients of the expansion. Then we use the results to study the problem of limit cycle bifurcation for two polynomial systems.