Meandering of trajectories of polynomial vector fields in the affine n-space.
We give an explicit upper bound for the number of isolated intersections between an integral curve of a polynomial vector field in Rn and an affine hyperplane. The problem turns out to be closely related to finding an explicit upper bound for the length of ascending chains of polynomial ideals spanned by consecutive derivatives. This exposition constitutes an extended abstract of a forthcoming paper: only the basic steps are outlined here, with all technical...