Bifurcations of the Riccati Quadratic Polynomial Differential Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we characterize the global phase portrait of the Riccati quadratic polynomial differential system [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] nonzero (otherwise the system is a Bernoulli differential system), [Formula: see text] (otherwise the system is a Liénard differential system), [Formula: see text] a polynomial of degree at most [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] polynomials of degree at most 2, and the maximum of the degrees of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is 2. We give the complete description of the phase portraits in the Poincaré disk (i.e. in the compactification of [Formula: see text] adding the circle [Formula: see text] of the infinity) modulo topological equivalence.