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Singular asymptotics for solutions of the inhomogeneous Painlev\'e II equation

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2020-01-08 v3

Abstract

We consider a family of solutions to the Painlev\'e II equation u(x)=2u3(x)+xu(x)αwith \aR\cut{0}, u''(x)=2u^3(x)+xu(x)-\alpha \qquad \textrm{with } \a \in \mathbb{R} \cut \{0\}, which have infinitely many poles on (,0)(-\infty, 0). Using Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems, we rigorously derive their singular asymptotics as xx \to -\infty. In the meantime, we extend the existing asymptotic results when x+x\to +\infty from \a12Z\a-\frac{1}{2} \notin \mathbb{Z} to any real \a\a. The connection formulas are also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05950,
  title  = {Singular asymptotics for solutions of the inhomogeneous Painlev\'e II equation},
  author = {Weiying Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05950},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

34 pages, 13 figures. Accepted by Nonlinearity on 28th Mar 2019