Node (autonomous system)

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Node (autonomous system), the behaviour of a linear autonomous system around a critical point is a node if the following conditions are satisifed:

Each path converges to the critical as $t \rightarrow \infty$ (or as $t \rightarrow - \infty$ ). Furthermore, each path approaches the point asymptotically through a line. ^[1].