Proper trajectories of type \({\mathbb{C}^{\ast}}\) of a polynomial vector field on \({\mathbb{C}^2}\) (Q641851)

Let \(X\) be a polynomial vector field on \(\mathbb{C}^2\) with isolated zeros. Such vector fields define a foliation by curves \(\mathcal{F}_X\) in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) with a finite number of singularities (zeros of \(X\)) that extend to \(\mathbb{CP}^2=\mathbb{C}^2 \cup L_{\infty}\). Each trajectory \(C_z\) of \(X\) through \(z\in\mathbb{C}^2\) with \(X(z)\neq{0}\) is contained in a leaf \(\mathcal{L}\) of this extended foliation, and its limit set \(\text{lim\,}(C_z)\) is defined as \(\bigcap_{\,m\geq 1}\,\, \overline{\mathcal{L}\setminus K_m}\), where \(K_m \subset K_{m+1} \subset \mathcal{L}\) is a sequence of compact subsets with \(\bigcup_{\,m\geq 1}\,\, K_m = \mathcal{L}\). A trajectory \(C_z\) is called proper if its topological closure \(\overline{C}_z\) defines an analytic curve in \(\mathbb{C}^{2}\) of pure dimension one, i.e., if the inclusion of \(\overline{C}_z\) in \(\mathbb{C}^2\) is a proper map. In the paper under review the author proves that if a polynomial vector field on \(\mathbb{C}^2\) has a proper and non-algebraic trajectory analytically isomorphic to \(\mathbb{C}^{\ast}\), all its trajectories are proper, and except at most one which is contained in an algebraic curve of type \(\mathbb{C}\) all of them are of type \(\mathbb{C}^{\ast}\). As a corollary he provides an analytic version of the Lin-Zaidenberg theorem for polynomial foliations.