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An estimate for the size of the basin of attraction of an equilibrium point for a class of planar dissipative vector fields is given here. Our main result, which generalizes a theorem of Krasowskii, is applied to give several sufficient conditions for global asymptotic stability.
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Gasull, A., Sotomayor, J. (1990). On the basin of attraction of dissipative planar vector fields. In: Françoise, JP., Roussarie, R. (eds) Bifurcations of Planar Vector Fields. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1455. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085393
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