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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3AVanDerPolPhaseSpace.png">right</a>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, in the study of <a href="page.php?w=dynamical_systems">dynamical systems</a> with two-dimensional <a href="page.php?w=phase_space">phase space</a>, a <b>limit cycle</b> is a closed <a href="page.php?w=trajectory">trajectory</a> in phase space having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches negative infinity. Such behavior is exhibited in some <a href="page.php?w=nonlinear_systems">nonlinear systems</a>.</p><p>
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