Theoretical analysis reveals the complete ring classification of polynomial first integrals in a Chazy-type family, demonstrating existence only at three discrete parameter values.
We classify, without an a priori degree bound, the polynomial first integrals of the autonomous third-order family p'''+p p''+k(p')²+(p²/4-σ)p'=0, (k,σ)∈². This is the constant-shift slice characterized by $2K'(p)=p$ in the more general equation p'''+pp''+k(p')²+K(p)p'=0; we call it the Toda-compatible slice because its homological reconstruction admits a finite Jacobi/Toda formulation, although the proof given here is independent of that reconstruction. After a polynomial change of variables the system is a lower-weight deformation of a $(1,2,3)$-quasihomogeneous derivation. We prove that every irreducible factor of a homogeneous polynomial first integral is itself a first integral, and that restriction to the equilibrium line is injective. The classification is then reduced to a reduced invariant curve of a planar foliation on the weighted-projective chart (1,2,3). The two nontrivial projective singularities yield a finite arithmetic classification once their local separatrix geometry is combined with the tangent-cone resonance relation. The result is the exact ring classification Xk,σ= cases[ H₃],&k=1,[ H₄],&k=2,[ H₆],&k=17/4,,&otherwise,cases for every σ∈, where the primitive generators have highest weighted degrees $3,4,6$, respectively, and are given explicitly. Thus a nonconstant polynomial first integral exists if and only if k∈\1,2,17/4\. Classical Chazy IV, V and VI also carry quasihomogeneous first integrals of degrees $3,4,6$, but the natural-rescaling invariant pair of the present homogeneous slice does not occur in Chazy's homogeneous list. To the best of our knowledge, the present all-degree ring classification on the slice $2K'=p$ has not previously been stated.
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