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Liouvillian integrability of three dimensional vector fields

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2025-12-18 v4 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We consider a three dimensional complex polynomial, or rational, vector field (equivalently, a two-form in three variables) which admits a Liouvillian first integral. We prove that there exists a first integral whose differential is the product of a rational 1-form with a Darboux function, or there exists a Darboux Jacobi multiplier. Moreover, we prove that Liouvillian integrability {in any dimension n3n\geq 3} always implies the existence of a first integral that is obtained by two successive integrations from one-forms with coefficients in a finite algebraic extension of the rational function field.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.20451,
  title  = {Liouvillian integrability of three dimensional vector fields},
  author = {Waleed Aziz and Colin Christopher and Chara Pantazi and Sebastian Walcher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.20451},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Some proofs are unnecessarily long. The essential results are being transferred to a shorter paper (entitled "Liouvillian integrability of vector fields in higher dimensions"), which also contains more material

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