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We prove that certain polynomials previously introduced by the author can be identified with tau functions of Painlev\'e VI, obtained from one of Picard's algebraic solutions by acting with a four-dimensional lattice of B\"acklund…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 Hjalmar Rosengren

In this paper we study the characteristic or generating function of a certain discontinuous linear statistics of the Laguerre unitary ensembles and show that this is a particular fifth Painl\'eve transcendant in the variable $t,$ the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Estelle Basor , Yang Chen

We discuss the structure of nonlocal effective action generating the conformal anomaly in classically Weyl invariant theories in curved spacetime. By the procedure of conformal gauge fixing, selecting the metric representative on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 A. O. Barvinsky , W. Wachowski

In the 1977 paper \cite{MTW} of B. McCoy, C. Tracy and T. Wu it was shown that the limiting two-point correlation function in the two-dimensional Ising model is related to a second order nonlinear Painlev\'e function. This result identified…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Thomas Bothner , William Warner

An important problem in applications of quasiconformal analysis and in its numerical aspect is to establish algorithms for explicit or approximate determination of the basic quasiinvariant curvelinear and analytic functionals intrinsically…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Samuel L. Krushkal

For a generic Painlev\'e 5 equation we characterise all the asymptotics in a right half plane near the point at infinity, that is, we find classified explicit solutions that are, by the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, labelled with…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Shun Shimomura

The gap probabilities at the hard and soft edges of scaled random matrix ensembles with orthogonal symmetry are known in terms of $\tau$-functions. Extending recent work relating to the soft edge, it is shown that these $\tau$-functions,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-13 Patrick Desrosiers , Peter J. Forrester

For two solutions of the WDVV equations that are related by the inversion symmetry, we show that the associated principal hierarchies of integrable systems are related by a reciprocal transformation, and the tau functions of the hierarchies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Si-Qi Liu , Dingdian Xu , Youjin Zhang

Virasoro irregular conformal block is presented as the expectation value of Jack-polynomials of the beta-deformed Penner-type matrix model and is compared with the inner product of Gaiotto states with arbitrary rank. It is confirmed that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-27 Sang Kwan Choi , Chaiho Rim , Hong Zhang

The leading classical asymptotics of Virasoro conformal blocks on the Riemann sphere with n generic and n-3 "heavy" degenerate field insertions can be described in terms of the geometry of Garnier system describing the monodromy preserving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Joerg Teschner

We give an implicit equation for the accessory parameter on the torus which is the necessary and sufficient condition to obtain the monodromy of the conformal factor. It is shown that the perturbative series for the accessory parameter in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Pietro Menotti

Recently, it was demonstrated that the discrepancy between the fixed-order (FOPT) and contour-improved (CIPT) perturbative expansions for $\tau$-lepton decay hadronic spectral function moments, which had been affecting the precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Néstor G. Gracia , André H. Hoang , Vicent Mateu

Hadronic tau decays offer the possibility of determining the strong coupling alpha_s at relatively low energy. Precisely for this reason, however, good control over the perturbative QCD corrections, the non-perturbative condensate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-12 Matthias Jamin

Considering the radial nonlinear Schrodinger equation - \Delta u + V(x)u = g(x,u) in R^N, N \geq 3 we aim to find a radial nontrivial solution for it, where V changes sign ensuring this problem is indefinite and g is an asymptotically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Mayra Soares , Liliane Maia

We prove a bijective unitary correspondence between 1) the isospectral torus of almost-periodic, absolutely continuous CMV matrices having fixed finite-gap spectrum and 2) special periodic block-CMV matrices satisfying a Magic Formula. This…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Jacob S. Christiansen , Benjamin Eichinger , Tom VandenBoom

For any arbitrary algebraic curve, we define an infinite sequence of invariants. We study their properties, in particular their variation under a variation of the curve, and their modular properties. We also study their limits when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bertrand Eynard , Nicolas Orantin

We introduce the scalar function $C(v)=\pi(1-v^2/c^2)$ as a conformal factor associated, within the model, with longitudinal Lorentz contraction. Extending $C(v)$ to a one-parameter family $C(v,\tau)$, we construct a variational scalar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Anton Alexa

We consider real-valued solutions $u=u(x|s),x\in\mathbb{R}$ of the second Painlev\'e equation $u_{xx}=xu+2u^3$ which are parametrized in terms of the monodromy data $s\equiv(s_1,s_2,s_3)\subset\mathbb{C}^3$ of the associated Flaschka-Newell…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Thomas Bothner

In this paper, we compute the small and large $x$ asymptotics of the special function solutions of Painlev\'e-III equation in the complex plane. We use the representation in terms of Toeplitz determinants of Bessel functions obtained in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Hao Pan , Andrei Prokhorov

An important problem is to determine under which circumstances a metric on a conformally compact manifold is conformal to a Poincar\'e--Einstein metric. Such conformal rescalings are in general obstructed by conformal invariants of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Samuel Blitz , A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron