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Two essential methods, the symmetry analysis and of the singularity analysis, for the study of the integrability of nonlinear ordinary differential equations are discussed. The main similarities and differences of these two different…
The construction and role of symmetries for difference equations are now well known. In this paper, the symmetry analysis of the discrete Painleve equations is considered. We assume that the characteristics depend on $n$ and $u_n$ only and…
For an arbitrary ordinary second order differential equation a test is constructed that checks if this equation is equivalent to Painleve I, II or Painleve III with three zero parameters equations under the substitutions of variables. If it…
Using the Painlev\'e--Kovalevskaya test, we find several new matrix generalizations of the Painlev\'e-4 equation. Some limiting transitions reduce them to known matrix Painlev\'e-2 equations.
There exist many situations where an ordinary differential equation admits a movable critical singularity which the test of Kowalevski and Gambier fails to detect. Some possible reasons are: existence of negative Fuchs indices, insufficient…
Consider the solution $y(t)$ for the ordinary differential equation $y' = f(t, y)$ with $t$ complex. Second-order nonlinear differential equations often exhibit patterns in their poles, branch points, and essential singularities, explored…
Three symbolic algorithms for testing the integrability of polynomial systems of partial differential and differential-difference equations are presented. The first algorithm is the well-known Painlev\'e test, which is applicable to…
The Painleve test is very useful to construct not only the Laurent-series solutions but also the elliptic and trigonometric ones. Such single-valued functions are solutions of some polynomial first order differential equations. To find the…
We examine the validity of the results obtained with the singularity confinement integrability criterion in the case of discrete Painlev\'e equations. The method used is based on the requirement of non-exponential growth of the homogeneous…
The singularity confinement test is very useful for isolating integrable cases of discrete-time dynamical systems, but it does not provide a sufficient criterion for integrability. Quite recently a new property of the bilinear equations…
The Painlev\'{e} property of coupled, non-autonomous Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) type of systems is studied. The conditions under which the systems pass the Painlev\'{e} test for integrability are obtained. For some of the integrable cases,…
We consider a modified Boussinesq type equation. The Painlev\'{e} test of the WTC method is performed for this equation and it shows that the equation has weak Painlev\'{e} property. Some exact solutions are constructed.
We study singularity confinement phenomena in examples of delay-differential Painlev\'e equations, which involve shifts and derivatives with respect to a single independent variable. We propose a geometric interpretation of our results in…
The Painlev\'e analysis introduced by Weiss, Tabor and Carnevale (WTC) in 1983 for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE's) is an extension of the method initiated by Painlev\'e and Gambier at the beginning of this century for the…
The discrete Painlev\'e property is precisely defined, and basic discretization rules to preserve it are stated. The discrete Painlev\'e test is enriched with a new method which perturbs the continuum limit and generates infinitely many…
The explicit integrability of second order ordinary differential equations invariant under time-translation and rescaling is investigated. Quadratic systems generated from the linearisable version of this class of equations are analysed to…
We use the Calogero equation to illustrate the following two aspects of the Painleve analysis of nonlinear PDEs. First, if a nonlinear equation passes the Painleve test for integrability, the singular expansions of its solutions around…
Differential equations with the Painlev\'e property have been studied extensively due to their appearance in many branches of mathematics and their applicability in physics. Although a modern, differential algebraic treatment of the order…
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…
A nonlinear coupled system descriptive of multi-ion electrodiffusion is investigated and all parameters for which the system admits a single-valued general solution are isolated. This is achieved \textit{via} a method initiated by Painleve'…