arXiv · 2201.11378
Rational Solutions of First Order Algebraic Ordinary Differential Equations
Abstract
Let $f(t,y,y')=\sum_{i=0}^n a_i(t,y)y'^i=0$ be an irreducible first order ordinary differential equation with polynomial coefficients. Eremenko in 1998 proved that there exists a constant $C$ such that every rational solution of $f(t,y,y')=0$ is of degree not greater than $C$. Examples show that this degree bound $C$ depends not only on the degrees of $f$ in $t,y,y'$ but also on the coefficients of $f$ viewed as the polynomial in $t,y,y'$. In this paper, we show that if $f$ satisfies $deg(f,y) 0 $ then the degree bound $C$ only depends on the degrees of $f$ in $t,y,y'$, and furthermore we present an explicit expression for $C$ in terms of the degrees of $f$ in $t,y,y'$.
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Shuang Feng, Li-Yong Shen. 2022-01-27. Rational Solutions of First Order Algebraic Ordinary Differential Equations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11378
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