Abstract: | We provide a qualitative analysis of the -dimensional dynamical system: where is an arbitrary positive integer. Under mild algebraic conditions on the constant matrix , we show that every solution , , extends to a solution on , such that , for . Moreover, the difference between any two solutions approaches as . We then use this result to give a complete qualitative analysis of a 3-dimensional dynamical system introduced by F. Gesmundo and F. Viani in modeling parabolic growth of three-oxide scales on pure metals. |