%0 Journal Article %T On point-dissipative systems of differential equations with quadratic nonlinearity %A Anile K. Bose %A Alan S. Cover %A James A. Reneke %J International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences %D 1991 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/s0161171291000108 %X The system x бщ ? 2=Ax+f(x) of nonlinear vector differential equations, where the nonlinear term f(x) is quadratic with orthogonality property xTf(x)=0 for all x, is point-dissipative if uTAu<0 for all nontrivial zeros u of f(x). %K point-dissipative %K quadratic nonlinearity %K symmetric matrices %K commutative but generally non-associative algebra. %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171291000108