An Efficient Method for Computing Liouvillian First Integrals of Planar Polynomial Vector Fields

Abstract: Here we present an efficient method to compute Darboux polynomials for polynomial vector fields in the plane. This approach is restricetd to polynomial vector fields presenting a Liouvillian first integral (or, equivalently, to rational first order differential equations (rational 1ODEs) presenting a Liouvillian general solution). The key to obtaining this method was to separate the procedure of solving the (nonlinear) algebraic systems resulting from the equation that translates the condition of existence of a Darboux polynomial into feasible steos (procedures that requires less memory consumption). We also present a brief performance analysis of the algorithms developed.