Darboux polynomials, balances and Painlevé property

Abstract

For a given polynomial differential system we provide different necessary conditions for the existence of Darboux polynomials using the balances of the system and the Painleve property. As far as we know, these are the first results which relate the Darboux theory of integrability, first, to the Painleve property and, second, to the Kovalevskaya exponents. The relation of these last two notions to the general integrability has been intensively studied over these last years.