Global structure of quaternion polynomial differential equations (Q533661)

The paper is devoted to the study of the global structure of the solutions of the quaternionic Bernoulli equation \[ q' = aq + bq^n, \] where \(q: \mathbb R \to \mathbb H\) (quaternionic-valued function), \(a, b \in \mathbb H\) and \(n \geq 2\) is an integer. This equation is written in the form \[ q' = a(cq - q^n) \] with \(a,c \in \mathbb H\) non zero. The results are based upon Liouville's integrability theorem and the topological characterization of the 2-torus. It is shown that the quaternionic Bernoulli equation can have invariant tori. The cases of \(n = 2\) and \(n=3\) are considered with more details. Other cubic quaternionic differential equations are studied as well.