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Hirota bilinear equations for Painlev\'e transcendents

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-05-07 v2 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We present some observations on the tau-function for the fourth Painlev\'e equation. By considering a Hirota bilinear equation of order four for this tau-function, we describe the general form of the Taylor expansion around an arbitrary movable zero. The corresponding Taylor series for the tau-functions of the first and second Painlev\'e equations, as well as that for the Weierstrass sigma function, arise naturally as special cases, by setting certain parameters to zero.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02341,
  title  = {Hirota bilinear equations for Painlev\'e transcendents},
  author = {A. N. W. Hone and F. Zullo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02341},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

This is version n.2, some typos have been fixed (e.g. formula 31), a formula for the coefficients \hat{A}_j in section 4 has been added, the references have been updated

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