An orthogonal system of polynomials, arising from a second-order ordinary differential equation, is presented.

We give a new proof of Jouanolou’s theorem about non-existence of algebraic solutions to the system $ẋ=z^s,ẏ=x^s,ż=y^s$. We also present some generalizations of the results of Darboux and Jouanolou about algebraic Pfaff forms with algebraic solutions.

In this paper, we study the motion planning problem for generic sub-riemannian metrics of co-rank one. We give explicit expressions for the metric complexity (in the sense of Jean [10, 11]), in terms of the elementary invariants of the problem. We construct asymptotic optimal syntheses. It turns out that among the results we show, the most complicated case is the 3-dimensional. Besides the generic $C^{\infty }$ case, we study some non-generic generalizations in the analytic case.

In this paper, we study the motion planning problem for generic sub-Riemannian metrics of co-rank one. We give explicit expressions for the metric complexity (in the sense of Jean [CITE]), in terms of the elementary invariants of the problem. We construct asymptotic optimal syntheses. It turns out that among the results we show, the most complicated case is the 3-dimensional. Besides the generic C∞ case, we study some non-generic generalizations in the analytic case.

We show that any equation dy/dx = P(x,y) with P a polynomial has a global (on ℝ²) smooth first integral nonconstant on any open domain. We also present an example of an equation without an analytic primitive first integral.

This paper is concerned with square integrable quasi-derivatives for any solution of a general quasi-differential equation of $n$th order with complex coefficients $M\left[y\right]-\lambda wy=wf(t,y^{\left[0\right]},...,y^{[n-1]})$, $t\in [a,b)$ provided that all $r$th quasi-derivatives of solutions of $M\left[y\right]-\lambda wy=0$ and all solutions of its normal adjoint $M^{+}\left[z\right]-\overline{\lambda }wz=0$ are in $L_w^2(a,b)$ and under suitable conditions on the function $f$.

We prove the existence of an effectively computable integer polynomial P(x,t₀,...,t₅) having the following property. Every continuous function $f:{ℝ}^s\to ℝ$ can be approximated with arbitrary accuracy by an infinite sum ${\sum }_{r=1}^{\infty }{H}_r(x₁,...,x_s)\in C^{\infty }\left({ℝ}^s\right)$ of analytic functions $H_r$, each solving the same system of universal partial differential equations, namely $P(x_{\sigma };H_r,\partial H_r/\partial x_{\sigma },...,\partial ⁵H_r/\partial x{⁵}_{\sigma }⁵)=0$ (σ = 1,..., s).

In this paper explicit expressions for solutions of Cauchy problems and two-point boundary value problems concerned with the generalized Riccati matrix differential equation are given. These explicit expressions are computable in terms of the data and solutions of certain algebraic Riccati equations related to the problem. The interplay between the algebraic and the differential problems is used in order to obtain approximate solutions of the differential problem in terms of those of the algebraic...