Planar quadratic vector fields with finite saddle connection on a straight line (convex case) (Q2468831): Difference between revisions

A quadratic system \[ \dot x = P(x,y),\quad \dot y = Q(x,y) \] can have up to four isolated singularities. By Berlinskii's Theorem, if none lies in the convex hull of the other three then two are saddles and two are antisaddles. In this paper, the authors find all possible phase portraits on the Poincaré sphere of such systems when the two finite saddles have a saddle connnection lying in an invariant straight line.