ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

A class of integrable polynomial vector fields

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. Departament de Matemàtica, Escola Técnica Superior D'Enginyeria Agrària, Universitat de Lleida, Avda. Alcalde Rovira Roure, 177, 25006 Lleida, Spain

Abstract

We study the integrability of two-dimensional autonomous systems in the plane of the form x.=-y+Xs(x,y), y.=x+Ys(x,y), where X_s(x,y) and Y_s(x,y) are homogeneous polynomials of degree s with s≥2. First, we give a method for finding polynomial particular solutions and next we characterize a class of integrable systems which have a null divergence factor given by a quadratic polynomial in the variable (x2+y2)s2-1 with coefficients being functions of tan^{−1}(y/x).

Keywords

integrable systems in the plane, center-focus problem

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Pages:
339-350
Main language of publication
English
Received
1994-12-20
Published
1995
Exact and natural sciences