I. Nikolaev et N. Vulpe, TOPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF QUADRATIC SYSTEMS AT INFINITY, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 55, 1997, pp. 473-488
It is proved that quadratic systems of autonomous differential equatio
ns in the plane admit forty-five topologically distinct phase configur
ations at infinity. The related conditions on the coefficients are giv
en in affine invariant form.