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Asymptotic stability at infinity for differentiable vector fields of the plane

Dynamical Systems 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Let X:R2\Dr->R2 be a differentiable (but not necessarily C1) vector field, where r>0 and Dr={z\in R2:|z|\le r}. If for some e>0 and for all p\in R2\Dr, no eigenvalue of D_p X belongs to (-e,0]\cup {z\in\C:\mathcal{R}(z)\ge 0}, then (a)For all p\in R2\Dr, there is a unique positive semi--trajectory of X starting at p; (b)\mathcal{I}(X), the index of X at infinity, is a well defined number of the extended real line [-\infty,\infty); (c) There exists a constant vector v\in R2 such that if \mathcal{I}(X) is less than zero (resp. greater or equal to zero), then the point at infinity \infty of the Riemann sphere R2\cup\set{\infty} is a repellor (resp. an attractor) of the vector field X+v.

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@article{arxiv.math/0601341,
  title  = {Asymptotic stability at infinity for differentiable vector fields of the plane},
  author = {C. Gutierrez and B. Pires and R. Rabanal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601341},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

16 pages, 7 figures

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