Phase portraits of quadratic polynomial vector fields having a rational first integral of degree 3

In this paper, we classify all the global phase portraits of the quadratic polynomial vector fields having a rational first integral of degree 3.     

Hamiltonian nilpotent centers of linear plus cubic homogeneous polynomial vector fields

We provide normal forms and the global phase portraits in the Poincaré disk for all Hamiltonian nilpotent centers of linear plus cubic homogeneous planar polynomial vector fields.     

Hamiltonian linear type centers of linear plus cubic homogeneous polynomial vector fields

We provide normal forms and the global phase portraits in the Poincaré disk for all the Hamiltonian linear type centers of linear plus cubic homogeneous planar polynomial vector fields.     

Slow-fast Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations

In this paper we study perturbations from planar vector fields having a line of zeros and representing a singular limit of Bogdanov-Takens (BT) bifurcations. We introduce, among other precise definitions, the notion of slow-fast BT-bifurcation and we provide a complete study of the bifurcation diagram and the related phase portraits. Based on geometric singular perturbation theory, including blow-up, we get results that are valid on a uniform neighborhood both in parameter space and in the phase plane.     

The 16th Hilbert problem on algebraic limit cycles

For real planar polynomial differential systems there appeared a simple version of the 16th Hilbert problem on algebraic limit cycles: Is there an upper bound on the number of algebraic limit cycles of all polynomial vector fields of degree m? In [J. Llibre, R. Ramírez, N. Sadovskaia, On the 16th Hilbert problem for algebraic limit cycles, J. Differential Equations 248 (2010) 1401-1409] Llibre, Ramírez and Sadovskaia solved the problem, providing an exact upper bound, in the case of invariant algebraic curves generic for the vector fields, and they posed the following conjecture: Is1+(m−1)(m−2)/2the maximal number of algebraic limit cycles that a polynomial vector field of degree m can have?In this paper we will prove this conjecture for planar polynomial vector fields having only nodal invariant algebraic curves. This result includes the Llibre et al.?s as a special one. For the polynomial vector fields having only non-dicritical invariant algebraic curves we answer the simple version of the 16th Hilbert problem.     

On the remarkable values of the rational first integrals of polynomial vector fields

The remarkable values for polynomial vector fields in the plane having a rational first integral were introduced by Poincaré. He was mainly interested in their algebraic aspects. Here we are interested in their dynamic aspects; i.e. how they contribute to the phase portrait of the system, to its separatrices, to its singular points, etc. The relationship between remarkable values and dynamics mainly takes place through the inverse integrating factor.     

Hamiltonian nilpotent saddles of linear plus cubic homogeneous polynomial vector fields

We completely characterize the global phase portraits in the Poincaré disk for all planar Hamiltonian vector fields with linear plus cubic homogeneous terms having a nilpotent saddle at the origin.     

Global Structure of Planar Quadratic Semi-Quasi-Homogeneous Polynomial Systems

This paper study the planar quadratic semi-quasi-homogeneous polynomial systems(short for PQSQHPS). By using the nilpotent singular points theorem, blow-up technique, Poincaré index formula, and Poincaré compaction method, the global phase portraits of such systems in canonical forms are discussed. Furthermore, we show that all the global phase portraits of PQSQHPS can be-classed into six topological equivalence classes.     

Polynomial inverse integrating factors for quadratic differential systems

We characterize all the quadratic polynomial differential systems having a polynomial inverse integrating factor and provide explicit normal forms for such systems and for their associated first integrals. We also prove that these families of quadratic systems have no limit cycles.     

Darboux integrating factors: Inverse problems

We discuss planar polynomial vector fields with prescribed Darboux integrating factors, in a nondegenerate affine geometric setting. We establish a reduction principle which transfers the problem to polynomial solutions of certain meromorphic linear systems, and show that the space of vector fields with a given integrating factor, modulo a subspace of explicitly known “standard” vector fields, has finite dimension. For several classes of examples we determine this space explicitly.     

Global Phase Portraits of Quadratic Systems with a Complex Ellipse as Invariant Algebraic Curve

In this paper, we study a new class of quadratic systems and classify all its phase portraits.More precisely, we characterize the class of all quadratic polynomial differential systems in the plane having a complex ellipse x~2+ y~2+ 1 = 0 as invariant algebraic curve. We provide all the different topological phase portraits that this class exhibits in the Poincar′e disc.     

Structural stability of piecewise-linear vector fields

Stability and genericity properties established for polynomial vector fields in the plane, extended to the Poincaré sphere, are proved for a class of piecewise-linear vector fields.     

Polynomial first integrals of quadratic vector fields

We classify all quadratic polynomial differential systems having a polynomial first integral, and provide explicit normal forms for such systems and for their first integrals.     

Quadratic systems with a rational first integral of degree three: a complete classification in the coefficient space ℝ12

A quadratic polynomial differential systemcan be identified with a single point of ?¹² through its coefficients. The phase portrait of the quadratic systems having a rational first integral of degree 3 have been studied using normal forms. Here using the algebraic invariant theory, we characterize all the non-degenerate quadratic polynomial differential systems in ?¹² having a rational first integral of degree 3. We show that there are only 31 different topological phase portraits in the Poincaré disc associated to this family of quadratic systems up to a reversal of the sense of their orbits, and we provide representatives of every class modulo an affine change of variables and a rescaling of the time variable. Moreover, each one of these 31 representatives is determined by a set of algebraic invariant conditions and we provide for it a first integral.     

Phase portraits of the quadratic vector fields with a polynomial first integral

In this work we classify the phase portraits of all quadratic polynomial differential systems having a polynomial first integral. IfH(x, y) is a polynomial of degreen+1 then the differential systemx′=−∂H/∂y,y′=∂H/∂x is called a Hamiltonian system of degreen. We also prove that all the phase portraits that we obtain in this paper are realizable by Hamiltonian systems of degree 2.     

Phase portraits of integrable quadratic systems with an invariant parabola and an invariant straight line

We classify the phase portraits of the quadratic polynomial differential systems having an invariant parabola, an invariant straight line, and a Darboux first integral produced by these two invariant curves.     

Embedding smooth diffeomorphisms in flows

In this paper we study the problem on embedding germs of smooth diffeomorphisms in flows in higher dimensional spaces. First we prove the existence of embedding vector fields for a local diffeomorphism with its nonlinear term a resonant polynomial. Then using this result and the normal form theory, we obtain a class of local Ck diffeomorphisms for k∈N∪{∞,ω} which admit embedding vector fields with some smoothness. Finally we prove that for any k∈N∪{∞} under the coefficient topology the subset of local Ck diffeomorphisms having an embedding vector field with some smoothness is dense in the set of all local Ck diffeomorphisms.     

An explicit expression for the first return map in the center problem

The classical center-focus problem posed by H. Poincaré in 1880's asks about the characterization of planar polynomial vector fields such that all their integral trajectories are closed curves whose interiors contain a fixed point, a center. In this paper, we present a method allowing for the first time to obtain an explicit expression for the first return map in the center problem.     

Configurations of limit cycles in Liénard equations

We show that every finite configuration of disjoint simple closed curves in the plane is topologically realizable as the set of limit cycles of a polynomial Liénard equation. The related vector field X is Morse–Smale. Moreover it has the minimum number of singularities required for realizing the configuration in a Liénard equation. We provide an explicit upper bound on the degree of X, which is lower than the results obtained before, obtained in the context of general polynomial vector fields.     

Phase portraits of piecewise linear continuous differential systems with two zones separated by a straight line

This paper provides the classification of the phase portraits in the Poincaré disc of all piecewise linear continuous differential systems with two zones separated by a straight line having a unique finite singular point which is a node or a focus. The sufficient and necessary conditions for existence and uniqueness of limit cycles are also given.