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We consider a family of solutions to the Painlev\'e II equation $$ u''(x)=2u^3(x)+xu(x)-\alpha \qquad \textrm{with } \a \in \mathbb{R} \cut \{0\}, $$ which have infinitely many poles on $(-\infty, 0)$. Using Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest…

We study the asymptotic behavior of a special smooth solution y(x,t) to the second member of the Painleve I hierarchy. This solution arises in random matrix theory and in the study of Hamiltonian perturbations of hyperbolic equations. The…

The asymptotic solution for the Painleve-2 equation with small parameter is considered. The solution has algebraic behavior before point $t_*$ and fast oscillating behavior after the point $t_*$. In the transition layer the behavior of the…

Using the Riemann-Hilbert approach, we study the quasi-linear Stokes phenomenon for the second Painlev\'e equation $y_{xx}=2y^3+xy-\alpha$. The precise description of the exponentially small jump in the dominant solution approaching…

In this work we propose a new method for investigating connection problems for the class of nonlinear second-order differential equations known as the Painlev{\'e} equations. Such problems can be characterized by the question as to how the…

We consider the asymptotic behaviour of the second discrete Painlev\'{e} equation in the limit as the independent variable becomes large. Using asymptotic power series, we find solutions that are asymptotically pole-free within some region…

Using the Riemann-Hilbert approach, we explicitly construct the asymptotic $\Psi$-function corresponding to the solution $y\sim\pm\sqrt{-x/2}$ as $|x|\to\infty$ to the second Painlev\'e equation $y_{xx}=2y^3+xy-\alpha$. We precisely…

The classical Painlev\'e equations are so well known that it may come as a surprise to learn that the asymptotic description of its solutions remains incomplete. The problem lies mainly with the description of families of solutions in the…

This paper is a continuation of our analysis, begun in arXiv:1310.2276, of the rational solutions of the inhomogeneous Painleve-II equation and associated rational solutions of the homogeneous coupled Painleve-II system in the limit of…

It is shown that a generalization of the Painlev\'e-II equation (P-II) to a system of coupled equations with symmetry breaking terms is integrable. A Lax pair for this system is used to relate the asymptotic behavior of the solutions at…

For the fifth Painlev\'e equation it is known that a general solution is represented asymptotically by an elliptic function in cheese-like strips near the point at infinity. We present an explicit asymptotic formula for the error term of…

The increasing tritronqu\'ee solutions of the Painlev\'e-II equation with parameter $\alpha$ exhibit square-root asymptotics in the maximally-large sector $|\arg(x)|<\tfrac{2}{3}\pi$ and have recently appeared in applications where it is…

We consider the second Painlev\'e equation $$ u"(x)=2u^3(x)+xu(x)-\alpha, $$ where $\alpha $ is a nonzero constant. Using the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems, we rigorously prove the asymptotics as…

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…

Some results are proved concerning asymptotic and deficient values in connection with the second order linear differential equation $y'' + Ay = 0$, in which the coefficient $A$ is entire.

In this study, we consider the asymptotic behaviour of the first discrete Painlev\{e} equation in the limit as the independent variable becomes large. Using an asymptotic series expansion, we identify two types of solutions which are…

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…

Leading terms of asymptotic expansions for the general complex solutions of the fifth Painlev\'e equation as $t\to\imath\infty$ are found. These asymptotics are parameterized by monodromy data of the associated linear ODE. $$…

The Painlev\'e-III equation with parameters $\Theta_0=n+m$ and $\Theta_\infty=m-n+1$ has a unique rational solution $u(x)=u_n(x;m)$ with $u_n(\infty;m)=1$ whenever $n\in\mathbb{Z}$. Using a Riemann-Hilbert representation proposed in…

We study the asymptotic behavior of the Ablowitz-Segur solutions for the second Painlev\'e equation using the Riemann-Hilbert approach and methods based on asymptotic expansions of classical special functions. Recent results show that the…