Blow up of mechanical systems with a homogeneous energy (Q1182626)

By using the ideas introduced by \textit{R. McGehee} in the study of the singularities in some problems of celestial meachnics [Inventiones math. 27, 191-227 (1974; Zbl 0297.70011)] we study the singularities at the origin and at the infinity for some classical mechanical systems with homogeneous kinetic and potential energy functions. For these systems the origin and the infinity of the configuration coordinates is usually a singularity or a nullity of the Hamiltonian function and the vector field.