On the existence of global first integrals in the plane (Q2367507)

The authors are concerned with the existence of global, smooth first integrals of noncritical, autonomous first order systems of ordinary differential equation in the plane of such kind: (1) \(x'= f(x)\), \(x\in R^ 2\), \(f\in C^ k(R^ 2,R^ 2)\), \(1\leq k\leq \omega\). It is proved that, if the system from (1) is of class \(C^ k\) and the limit separatrices do not accumulate, then there exists a global first integral of class \(C^ k\) \((k\neq \omega)\).