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Metrisability of Painlev\'e equations

Differential Geometry 2018-02-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

We solve the metrisability problem for the six Painlev\'e equations, and more generally for all 2nd order ODEs with Painlev\'e property, and determine for which of these equations their integral curves are geodesics of a (pseudo) Riemannian metric on a surface.

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@article{arxiv.1604.03579,
  title  = {Metrisability of Painlev\'e equations},
  author = {Felipe Contatto and Maciej Dunajski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03579},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

10 pages. Final version, minor revisions. To appear in JMP

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