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Limiting behavior of trajectories of complex polynomial vector fields

Complex Variables 2010-04-16 v1 Algebraic Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We prove that every trajectory of a polynomial vector field on the complex projective plane accumulates to the singular locus of the vector field. This statement represents a holomorphic version of the Poincare-Bendixson theorem and solves the complex analytic counterpart of Hilbert's 16th problem. The main result can be also reformulated as the nonexistence of "exceptional minimals" of holomorphic foliations on \pp2\pp^2 and, in particular, implies the nonexistence of real analytic Levi flat hypersurfaces in the complex projective plane. Finally, we describe (in the first approximation) the way a minimal complex trajectory approaches the singular locus of the vector field.

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@article{arxiv.1004.2618,
  title  = {Limiting behavior of trajectories of complex polynomial vector fields},
  author = {Sergey Ivashkovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2618},
  year   = {2010}
}

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49 pages, 2 figures

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