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2 - Painlevé Equations: Continuous, Discrete and Ultradiscrete

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

Basil Grammaticos
Affiliation:
Université Paris
Alfred Ramani
Affiliation:
Centre de Physique Théorique, École Polytechnique
Decio Levi
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Peter Olver
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Zora Thomova
Affiliation:
SUNY Institute of Technology
Pavel Winternitz
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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Abstract

We present a derivation of the continuous and discrete Painlevé equations and then proceed to establish a parallel between the special properties these equations possess, and which are related to their integrable character. The ultradiscrete forms of Painlevé equations are then derived and we show that their properties follow closely the ones of their continuous and discrete counterparts.

Introduction

Deriving integrable systems is a (very) delicate business. In the absence of a general, constructive theory the usual approach to discovering new integrable equations is to try to construct specific examples. Sometimes they are suggested by physical models, the KdV equation being the prototype of such a system. Once a sufficient number of examples are obtained one can formulate conjectures and proceed to propose integrability criteria. Painlevé equations are a minor exception to this approach. Their discovery is due to the inspired intuition of Painlevé [23]. He was faced with the problem of defining new functions from the solutions of differential equations, a challenge set by Picard [25], who thought that this would have been impossible for second-order equations. This pessimistic attitude was due to the fact that nonlinear differential equations possess multivaluedness-inducing singularities, the position of which depends on the initial conditions, thus making impossible any uniformisation treatment. The masterful solution of Painlevé was to look only for equations free of these “bad” singularities.

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