On the integrability of the Abel and of the extended Liénard equations

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Abstract: We present some exact integrability cases of the extended Li'{e}nard equation yprimeprime+fleft(yight)left(yprimeight)n+kleft(yight)left(yprimeight)m+gleft(yight)yprime+hleft(yight)=0, with n>0 and m>0 arbitrary constants, while f(y), k(y), g(y), and h(y) are arbitrary functions. The solutions are obtained by transforming the equation Li'{e}nard equation to an equivalent first kind first order Abel type equation given by fracdvdy=fleft(yight)v3n+kleft(yight)v3m+gleft(yight)v2+hleft(yight)v3, with v=1/yprime. As a first step in our study we obtain three integrability cases of the extended quadratic-cubic Li'{e}nard equation, corresponding to n=2 and m=3, by assuming that particular solutions of the associated Abel equation are known. Under this assumption the general solutions of the Abel and Li'{e}nard equations with coefficients satisfying some differential conditions can be obtained in an exact closed form. With the use of the Chiellini integrability condition, we show that if a particular solution of the Abel equation is known, the general solution of the extended quadratic cubic Li'{e}nard equation can be obtained by quadratures. The Chiellini integrability condition is extended to generalized Abel equations with g(y)equiv0 and h(y)equiv0, and arbitrary n and m, thus allowing to obtain the general solution of the corresponding Li'{e}nard equation. The application of the generalized Chiellini condition to the case of the reduced Riccati equation is also considered.



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