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The dynamics of the Ehrhard-M\"uller system with invariant algebraic surfaces

Dynamical Systems 2025-05-20 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the global dynamics of the Ehrhard-M\"uller differential system x˙=s(yx),y˙=rxxzy+c,z˙=xyz, \dot{x} = s(y - x), \quad \dot{y} = rx - xz - y + c, \quad \dot{z} = xy - z, where ss, rr and cc are real parameters, and xx, yy, and zz are real variables. We classify the invariant algebraic surfaces of degree 22 of this differential system. After we describe the phase portraits in the Poincar\'e ball of this differential system having one of this invariant algebraic surfaces. The Poincar\'e ball is the closed unit ball in R3\mathbb{R}^3 whose interior has been identified with R3\mathbb{R}^3, and his boundary, the 22-dimensional sphere S2\mathbb{S}^2, has been identified with the infinity of R3\mathbb{R}^3. Note that in the space R3\mathbb{R}^3 we can go to infinity in as many as directions as points has the sphere S2\mathbb{S}^2. A polynomial differential system as the Ehrhard-M\"uller system can be extended analytically to the Poincar\'e ball, in this way we can study its dynamics in a neigborhood of infinity. Providing these phase portraits in the Poincar\'e ball we are describing the dynamics of all orbits of the Ehrhard-M\"uller system having an invariant algebraic surface of degree 22.

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@article{arxiv.2505.12047,
  title  = {The dynamics of the Ehrhard-M\"uller system with invariant algebraic surfaces},
  author = {Jaume Llibre and Gabriel Rondón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12047},
  year   = {2025}
}