Corrections and Complements to "Liouvillian Integration of the Lotka-Volterra System"

Jean Moulin Ollagnier

The Lotka--Volterra system of autonomous differential equations consists in three homogeneous polynomial equations of degree 2 in three variables.
This system, or the corresponding vector field $\lv$, depends on three non--zero (complex) parameters and may be written as \[\lv= x (C y + z)\partial_x + y (A z + x)\partial_y + z ( B x + y)\partial_z.\]In fact, $\lv$ can be chosen as a normal form for most of the factored quadratic systems; the study of its first integrals of degree 0 is thus of great mathematical interest.
In the paper into consideration \cite{jmo2001}, we thus described all possible values of the triple $(A,B,C)$ of non--zero parameters for which $\lv$ has a homogeneous liouvillian first integral of degree $0$.
We also discussed the corresponding problem of the liouvillian integration for quadratic factored vector fields that cannot be put in Lotka--Volterra normal form, for instance with some $0$ among $A,B,C$.
{\em There are some errors in the description of these marginal situations that we would like to correct in the present note}.