Monodromy, center–focus and integrability problems for quasi-homogeneous polynomial systems

Abstract

This paper deals with planar quasi-homogeneous polynomial vector fields, and addresses three major questions: the monodromy, the center–focus and the integrability problems. We characterize the monodromic planar quasi-homogeneous polynomial vector fields, and we give a condition to distinguish between a center and a focus in this case. Also, we provide conditions which characterize the integrability of quasi-homogeneous polynomial systems under non-resonance conditions. The results obtained allow us to analyse two monodromic planar systems with degenerate linear part: one of them with nilpotent linearization, and another one with null linear part.