The Painlev\'e approach to nonlinear ordinary differential equations
Abstract
The ``Painlev\'e analysis'' is quite often perceived as a collection of tricks reserved to experts. The aim of this course is to demonstrate the contrary and to unveil the simplicity and the beauty of a subject which is in fact the theory of the (explicit) integration of nonlinear differential equations. To achieve our goal, we will not start the exposition with a more or less precise ``Painlev\'e test''. On the contrary, we will finish with it, after a gradual introduction to the rich world of singularities of nonlinear differential equations, so as to remove any cooking recipe. The emphasis is put on embedding each method of the test into the well known theorem of perturbations of Poincar\'e. A summary can be found at the beginning of each chapter.
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@article{arxiv.solv-int/9710020,
title = {The Painlev\'e approach to nonlinear ordinary differential equations},
author = {R. Conte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:solv-int/9710020},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
113 pages, no figure, standard Latex, to appear in The Painlev\'e property, one century later, ed. R. Conte, CRM series in mathematical physics (Springer--Verlag, Berlin, 1998) (Carg\`ese school, 3-22 June 1996)