School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, United Kingdom ; Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
We give a class of quadratic systems without rational first integral which contains irreducible algebraic solutions of arbitrarily high degree. The construction gives a negative answer to a conjecture of Lins Neto and others.