Structural stability of planar polynomial foliations (Q2574149)

Consider the space \(F_n\) of planar polynomial vector fields of degree \(n\) without finite rest points with the coefficient topology. A field \(X\in F_n\) is called structurally stable if for any \(Y\in F_n\) close enough to \(X\), the corresponding associated Poincaré vector fields \(\pi(X)\) and \(\pi(Y)\) on the two-dimensional sphere are topologically equivalent. The authors give sufficient (and, separately, necessary) conditions under which a field \(X\in F_n\) is structurally stable. Other types of structural stability are discussed, too.