Necessary conditions for existence of tensor invariants for general nonlinear dynamical systems

The integrability has been playing an essential role in the field of differential equations. This property may better help us obtain the topological structure and even the global dynamics for the considered system. A system is called integrable if it has a number of tensor invariants, which can comprehensively define the integrability problem. In this paper, we give necessary conditions for existence of tensor invariants for general nonlinear systems, especially semi-quasihomogeneous systems. Our results may be viewed as a generalization of Poincaré and Kozlov’s work.