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Picard and Chazy solutions to the Painleve' VI equation

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

I study the solutions of a particular family of Painlev\'e VI equations with the parameters β=γ=0,δ=1/2\beta=\gamma=0, \delta=1/2 and 2α=(2μ1)22\alpha=(2\mu-1)^2, for 2μ\interi2\mu\in\interi. I show that the case of half-integer μ\mu is integrable and that the solutions are of two types: the so-called Picard solutions and the so-called Chazy solutions. I give explicit formulae for them and completely determine their asymptotic behaviour near the singular points 0,1,0,1,\infty and their nonlinear monodromy. I study the structure of analytic continuation of the solutions to the PVIμ\mu equation for any μ\mu such that 2μ\interi2\mu\in\interi. As an application, I classify all the algebraic solutions. For μ\mu half-integer, I show that they are in one to one correspondence with regular polygons or star-polygons in the plane. For μ\mu integer, I show that all algebraic solutions belong to a one-parameter family of rational solutions.

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@article{arxiv.math/9901054,
  title  = {Picard and Chazy solutions to the Painleve' VI equation},
  author = {M. Mazzocco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9901054},
  year   = {2007}
}

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37 pages, TeX, 5 figures