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We study ordinary differential equations in the complex domain, and investigate the absence of movable critical points (the Painlev\'e property) for systems of non-autonomous polynomial quadratic differential equations in two variables. We classify the systems having this property by studying, when it is possible, some obstructions described by Malmquist, and by reducing them to second-order equations of the first degree in one variable, for which the analysis of Painlev\'e and Gambier can be applied. We find that, in many cases, overcoming Malmquist's obstructions guarantees the absence of movable critical points.

We formalize the concepts of holomorphic affine and projective structures along the leaves of holomorphic foliations by curves on complex manifolds. We show that many foliations admit such structures, we provide local normal forms for them at singular points of the foliation, and we prove some index formulae in the case where the ambient manifold is compact. As a consequence of these, we establish that a regular foliation of general type on a compact algebraic manifold of even dimension does not admit a foliated projective structure. Finally, we classify foliated affine and projective structures along regular foliations on compact complex surfaces.

This paper deals with holomorphic self-maps of the complex projective plane and the algebraic relations among the eigenvalues of the derivatives at the fixed points. These eigenvalues are constrained by certain index theorems such as the holomorphic Lefschetz fixed-point theorem. A simple dimensional argument suggests there must exist even more algebraic relations that the ones currently known. In this work we analyze the case of quadratic self-maps having an invariant line and obtain all such relations. We also prove that a generic quadratic self-map with an invariant line is completely determined, up to linear equivalence, by the collection of these eigenvalues. Under the natural correspondence between quadratic rational maps of $\mathbb{P}^2$ and quadratic homogeneous vector fields on $\mathbb{C}^3$, the algebraic relations among multipliers translate to algebraic relations among the Kowalevski exponents of a vector field. As an application of our results, we describe the sets of integers that appear as the Kowalevski exponents of a class of quadratic homogeneous vector fields on $\mathbb{C}^3$ having exclusively single-valued solutions., Comment: 26 pages, 15 ancillary files (plus README files)

For ordinary differential equations in the complex domain, a central problem is to understand, in a given equation or class of equations, those whose solutions do not present multivaluedness. We consider autonomous, first-order, quadratic homogeneous equations in three variables, and begin the classification of those which do not have multivalued solutions.

We study ordinary differential equations in the complex domain given by meromorphic vector fields on K\"ahler compact complex surfaces. We prove that if such an equation has a maximal single valued solution with Zariski-dense image (in particular, if it has an entire one) then, up to a bimeromorphic transformation, either the vector field is holomorphic or it preserves a fibration., Comment: post-referee version

We classify the affine connections on compact orientable surfaces for which the pseudogroup of local isometries acts transitively. We prove that such a connection is either torsion-free and flat, the Levi-Civita connection of a Riemannian metric of constant curvature or the quotient of a translation-invariant connection in the plane.

We classify torsion-free real-analytic affine connections on compact oriented real-analytic surfaces which are locally homogeneous on a nontrivial open set, without being locally homogeneous on all of the surface. In particular, we prove that such connections exist. This classification relies in a local result that classifies germs of torsion-free real-analytic affine connections on a neighborhood of the origin in the plane which are quasihomogeneous, in the sense that they are locally homogeneous on an open set containing the origin in its closure, but not locally homogeneous in the neighborhood of the origin.

We prove that a singular complex surface that admits a complete holomorphic vector field that has no invariant curve through a singular point of the surface is obtained from a Kato surface by contracting some divisor (in particular, it is compact). We also prove that, in a singular Stein surface endowed with a complete holomorphic vector field, a singular point of the surface where the zeroes of the vector field do not accumulate is either a quasihomogeneous or a cyclic quotient singularity. The proofs rely in a combinatorial description of the vector field on a resolution of the singular point based on previous work of Rebelo and the author. With the same tools, we reprove some facts about the classification of compact complex surfaces admitting holomorphic vector fields., Comment: post-referee version

Chazy studied a family of homogeneous third-order autonomous differential equations. They are those, within a certain class, admitting exclusively single-valued solutions. Each one of these equations yields a polynomial vector field in complex three-dimensional space. For almost all of these these vector fields, the Zariski closure of a generic orbit yields an affine surface endowed with a holomorphic vector field that has exclusively single-valued solutions. We classify these surfaces and relate this classification to recent results of Rebelo and the author., Comment: 18 pages

In this article we investigate the natural domain of definition of a holonomy map associated to a singular holomorphic foliation of the complex projective plane. We prove that germs of holonomy between algebraic curves can have large sets of singularities for the analytic continuation. In the Riccati context we provide examples with natural boundary and maximal sets of singularities. In the generic case we provide examples having at least a Cantor set of singularities and even a nonempty open set of singularities. The examples provided are based on the presence of sufficiently rich contracting dynamics in the holonomy pseudogroup of the foliation., Comment: 30 pages with 3 figures