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Reduction of Elementary Integrability of Polynomial Vector Fields

Dynamical Systems 2024-12-09 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs Group Theory

Abstract

Prelle and Singer showed in 1983 that if a system of ordinary differential equations defined on a differential field KK has a first integral in an elementrary field extension LL of KK, then it must have a first integral consisting of algebraic elements over KK via their constant powers and logarithms. Based on this result they further proved that an elementary integrable planar polynomial differential system has an integrating factor which is a fractional power of a rational function. Here we extend their results and prove that any nn dimensional elementary integrable polynomial vector field has n1n-1 functionally independent first integrals being composed of algebraic elements over KK. Furthermore, using the Galois theory we prove that the vector field has a rational Jacobian multiplier.

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@article{arxiv.2412.04750,
  title  = {Reduction of Elementary Integrability of Polynomial Vector Fields},
  author = {Wenyong Huang and Xiang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04750},
  year   = {2024}
}

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