Related papers: A Review on The Sixth Painleve' Equation
We present a constructive procedure to obtain the critical behavior of Painleve' VI transcendents and solve the connection problem. This procedure yields two and one parameter families of solutions, including trigonometric and logarithmic…
The critical behavior of a three real parameter class of solutions of the sixth Painlev\'e equation is computed, and parametrized in terms of monodromy data of the associated $2\times 2$ matrix linear Fuchsian system of ODE. The class may…
We consider connection between the Painleve-6 equation and explicitly uniformizable orbifolds
The paper concerns asymptotic studies for the sixth Painlev\'e transcendent as independent variable tends to infinity. The primary tool is averaging and the Whitham method. Elliptic ansatz, appropriate modulation equation and asymptotics…
We find a class of solutions of the sixth Painleve' equation appearing in the theory of WDVV equations. This class covers almost all the monodromy data associated to the equation, except one point in the space of the data. We find the…
The sixth Painlev\'e equation is a basic equation among the non-linear differential equations with three fixed singularities, corresponding to Gauss's hypergeometric differential equation among the linear differential equations. It is known…
We study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of the generic ($D_6^{(1)}$-type) third Painlev\'e equation in the space of initial values as the independent variable approaches infinity (or zero) and show that the limit set of each…
For transcendental functions that solve non-linear $q$-difference equations, the best descriptions available are the ones obtained by expansion near critical points at the origin and infinity. We describe such solutions of a $q$-discrete…
The Lie point symmetries of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that are candidates for having the Painlev\'e property are explored for ODEs of order $n =2, \dots ,5$. Among the 6 ODEs identifying the Painlev\'e transcendents only…
We study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of the fifth Painlev\'e equation as the independent variable approaches zero and infinity in the space of initial values. We show that the limit set of each solution is compact and…
When the independent variable is close to a critical point, it is shown that PVI can be asymptotically reduced to PIII. In this way, it is possible to compute the leading term of the critical behaviors of PVI transcendents starting from the…
We will study special solutions of the fourth, fifth and sixth Painlev\'e equations with generic values of parameters whose linear monodromy can be calculated explicitly. We will show the relation between Umemura's classical solutions and…
We present a determinant expression for a family of classical transcendental solutions of the Painlev\'e V and the Painlev\'e VI equation. Degeneration of these solutions along the process of coalescence for the Painlev\'e equations is…
We represent and analyze the general solution of the sixth Painleve transcendent in the Picard-Hitchin-Okamoto class in the Painleve form as the logarithmic derivative of the ratio of certain $\tau$-functions. These functions are…
The critical and asymptotic behaviors of solutions of the sixth Painlev\'e equation, an their parametrization in terms of monodromy data, are synthetically reviewed. The explicit formulas are given. This paper has been withdrawn by the…
We study dynamics of solutions in the initial value space of the sixth Painlev\'e equation as the independent variable approaches zero. Our main results describe the repeller set, show that the number of poles and zeroes of general…
We study the global analytic properties of the solutions of a particular family of Painleve' VI equations with the parameters $\beta=\gamma=0$, $\delta={1\over2}$ and $\alpha$ arbitrary. We introduce a class of solutions having critical…
An algebro-geometric setting for the study of the Painlev\'e VI equation is introduced. Hamiltonian form of the equation is realized on a twisted relative cotangent bundle to the universal elliptic curve with labelled points of order two.…
All possible 1-parametric classical and transcendent degenerated solutions of the fourth Painleve equation with the corresponding connection formulae of the asymptotic parameters are described.
This expository article written for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society provides an overview of transcendental functions arising as solutions of the discrete Painlev\'e equations, for which the developments of the last two…