From Abel equations to Jacobian conjecture (Q482171)

This article is devoted to three main topics to which the author has devoted part of his research and which are in common with part of the research of Jaume Llibre, to whom the volume of the journal is dedicated for his 60th birthday. \newline The paper starts with a brief introduction and then there are three main sections. A very complete list of references for the three main topics is included. The first issue is about the Abel equation and the algebraic moments problem. The author considers an Abel equation of the form \[ \frac{dy}{dx} \, = \, p(x) y^3 \, + \, \varepsilon q(x) y^2, \] where \(p(x)\) and \(q(x)\) are (real or complex) polynomials and \(x \in [0,1]\). The algebraic moments problem consists in characterizing the polynomial \(P \, := \, \int_{0}^{x} p(t) dt\) and the polynomial \(q(x)\) such that \[ m_k := \int_{0}^{1} P(x)^k q(x) dx = 0 \quad \text{for all \(k \geq 1\).} \] This problem has been fully solved by \textit{F. Pakovich} and \textit{M. Muzychuk} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 99, No. 3, 633--657 (2009; Zbl 1177.30046)]. The solution of this problem allows to determine when the Abel differential equation has a ``center'' at first order of the perturbation parameter \(\varepsilon\). This problem has been generalized to many dimensions by \textit{J. P. Francoise} et al. [Bull. Sci. Math. 135, No. 1, 10--32 (2011; Zbl 1217.44008)]. The second issue surveyed in the paper is the Jacobian conjecture and its relation with a Hamilton-Jacobi equation and with other related conjectures in the domain of differential equations. The last section is devoted to measures defined on the complement of an arrangement of hyperplanes. Caseiro, Francçoise and Sasaki in [\textit{R. Caseiro} et al., Rev. Math. Phys. 25, No. 10, Article ID 1343009, 10 p. (2013; Zbl 1348.37088)] analyze some consequences of the main results in this context to perturbation theory of Hamiltonian systems and symplectic geometry.