The structure of solutions of a hypergeometric equation system

We consider a system of ordinary differential equations which is a multidimensional analogue of a hypergeometric equation. We study the structure and asymptotics of solutions at the singular points and construct a fundamental system of solutions in a neighborhood of each singular point. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania. Translated from Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 52–64, January–March, 1999. Translated by V. Mackevičius     

A family of Schottky groups arising from the hypergeometric equation

We study a complex 3-dimensional family of classical Schottky groups of genus 2 as monodromy groups of the hypergeometric equation. We find non-trivial loops in the deformation space; these correspond to continuous integer-shifts of the parameters of the equation.

     

Global solutions of the biconfluent Heun equation

An algorithm is proposed for obtaining global solutions of the biconfluent Heun equation, which appears when dealing with a variety of physical problems. The procedure, which provides algebraic expressions of the solutions in the form of convergent series or asymptotic expansions, lies on the determination of the connection factors relating the solutions about the regular singular point at the origin and the irregular one at infinity. The algorithm is illustrated by examples.     

Special Monodromy Groups and the Riemann-Hilbert Problem for the Riemann Equation

In this paper, we solve the Riemann-Hilbert problem for the Riemann equation and for the hypergeometric equation. We describe all possible representations of the monodromy of the Riemann equation. We show that if the monodromy of the Riemann equation belongs to SL(2, ℂ), then it can be realized not only by the Riemann equation, but also by the more special Riemann-Sturm-Liouville equation. For the hypergeometric equation, we construct a criterion for its monodromy group to belong to SL(2, ℤ).__________Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, vol. 77, no. 5, 2005, pp. 753–767.Original Russian Text Copyright ©2005 by V. A. Poberezhnyi.     

Solutions with moving singularities for a semilinear parabolic equation

We consider the Cauchy problem for a semilinear heat equation with power nonlinearity. It is known that the equation has a singular steady state in some parameter range. Our concern is a solution with a moving singularity that is obtained by perturbing the singular steady state. By formal expansion, it turns out that the remainder term must satisfy a certain parabolic equation with inverse-square potential. From the well-posedness of this equation, we see that there appears a critical exponent. Paying attention to this exponent, for a prescribed motion of the singular point and suitable initial data, we establish the time-local existence, uniqueness and comparison principle for such singular solutions. We also consider solutions with multiple singularities.     

Infinite‐energy solutions for the Cahn–Hilliard equation in cylindrical domains

We give a detailed study of the infinite‐energy solutions of the Cahn–Hilliard equation in the 3D cylindrical domains in uniformly local phase space. In particular, we establish the well‐posedness and dissipativity for the case of regular potentials of arbitrary polynomial growth as well as for the case of sufficiently strong singular potentials. For these cases, we prove the further regularity of solutions and the existence of a global attractor. For the cases where we have failed to prove the uniqueness (e.g., for the logarithmic potentials), we establish the existence of the trajectory attractor and study its properties. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On reducing the Heun equation to the hypergeometric equation

The reductions of the Heun equation to the hypergeometric equation by polynomial transformations of its independent variable are enumerated and classified. Heun-to-hypergeometric reductions are similar to classical hypergeometric identities, but the conditions for the existence of a reduction involve features of the Heun equation that the hypergeometric equation does not possess; namely, its cross-ratio and accessory parameters. The reductions include quadratic and cubic transformations, which may be performed only if the singular points of the Heun equation form a harmonic or an equianharmonic quadruple, respectively; and several higher-degree transformations. This result corrects and extends a theorem in a previous paper, which found only the quadratic transformations. (SIAM J. Math. Anal. 10 (3) (1979) 655).     

Symmetries of the hypergeometric function

In this paper, we show that the generalized hypergeometric function has a one parameter group of local symmetries, which is a conjugation of a flow of a rational Calogero-Mozer system. We use the symmetry to construct fermionic fields on a complex torus, which have linear-algebraic properties similar to those of the local solutions of the generalized hypergeometric equation. The fields admit a nontrivial action of the quaternions based on the above symmetry. We use the similarity between the linear-algebraic structures to introduce the quaternionic action on the direct sum of the space of solutions of the generalized hypergeometric equation and its dual. As a side product, we construct a ``good' basis for the monodromy operators of the generalized hypergeometric equation inspired by the study of multiple flag varieties with finitely many orbits of the diagonal action of the general linear group by Magyar, Weyman, and Zelevinsky. As an example of computational effectiveness of the basis, we give a proof of the existence of the monodromy invariant hermitian form on the space of solutions of the generalized hypergeometric equation (in the case of real local exponents) different from the proofs of Beukers and Heckman and of Haraoka. As another side product, we prove an elliptic generalization of Cauchy identity.

     

Construction of a system of linear differential equations from a scalar equation

As is well known, given a Fuchsian differential equation, one can construct a Fuchsian system with the same singular points and monodromy. In the present paper, this fact is extended to the case of linear differential equations with irregular singularities.     

Exact WKB analysis of a Schrödinger equation with a merging triplet of two simple poles and one simple turning point,II — Its relevance to the Mathieu equation and the Legendre equation

We develop the exact WKB analysis of an M2P1T (merging two simple poles and one simple turning point) Schrödinger equation. In Part II, using a WKB-theoretic transformation to the algebraic Mathieu equation constructed in Part I, we calculate the alien derivative of its Borel transformed WKB solutions at each fixed singular point relevant to the simple poles through the analysis of Borel transformed WKB solutions of the Legendre equations. In the course of the calculation of the alien derivative we make full use of microdifferential operators whose symbols are given by the infinite series that appear in the coefficients of the algebraic Mathieu equation and the Legendre equation.     

Integral representation of solutions to Fuchsian system and Heun's equation

We obtain integral representations of solutions to special cases of the Fuchsian system of differential equations and Heun's differential equation. In particular, we calculate the monodromy of solutions to the Fuchsian equation that corresponds to Picard's solution of the sixth Painlevé equation, and to Heun's equation.     

Traveling wave solutions for Schrödinger equation with distributed delay

The paper is devoted to study of traveling waves of nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed delay by applying geometric singular perturbation theory, differential manifold theory and the regular perturbation analysis for a Hamiltonian system. Under the assumptions that the distributed delay kernel is strong general delay kernel and the average delay is small, we first investigate the existence of solitary wave solutions by differential manifold theory. Then by utilizing the regular perturbation analysis for a Hamiltonian system, we explore the periodic traveling wave solutions.     

On some solutions of the extended confluent hypergeometric differential equation

The extended confluent hypergeometric equation is defined (Section 1) as a linear second-order differential equation with (Section 2) a regular singularity at the origin and an (Section 3) irregular singularity of arbitrary degree M+1 at infinity; the original confluent hypergeometric equation is the particular case M=0, whereas the case M=1 is reducible (Section 3.2) to the former. Six types of solutions of the extended confluent hypergeometric equation of degree M, are obtained viz.: (i) functions of the first kind, i.e., regular ascending power series expansions, with infinite radius of convergence about the origin, for all values of the coefficients and degree M (Section 2.1); (ii) functions of the second kind, i.e. power series expansions with a logarithmic singularity, at the origin, for some values of the coefficients and all M (Section 2.2): (iii) only one asymptotic power series expansion exists, (Section 2.3) for M=0; (iv) concerning normal integrals (Section 3.2), valid as asymptotic expansions in the neighbourhood of the point-at-infinity, one exists for degree zero M=0 and two for degree unity M=1; (v) for degree greater than one M>1, two Laurent series expansions (Section 3.3) valid in the neighbourhood of infinity are obtained; (vi) an integral representation (Section 4) using the complex Laplace transform (Section 4.1) is obtained for (Sections 4.2–4.3) degree unity or zero M⩽1, using paths in a complex cut-plane (Fig. 1).     

Properties of the solutions of the fourth-order Bessel-type differential equation

The structured Bessel-type functions of arbitrary even-order were introduced by Everitt and Markett in 1994; these functions satisfy linear ordinary differential equations of the same even-order. The differential equations have analytic coefficients and are defined on the whole complex plane with a regular singularity at the origin and an irregular singularity at the point of infinity. They are all natural extensions of the classical second-order Bessel differential equation. Further these differential equations have real-valued coefficients on the positive real half-line of the plane, and can be written in Lagrange symmetric (formally self-adjoint) form. In the fourth-order case, the Lagrange symmetric differential expression generates self-adjoint unbounded operators in certain Hilbert function spaces. These results are recorded in many of the papers here given as references. It is shown in the original paper of 1994 that in this fourth-order case one solution exists which can be represented in terms of the classical Bessel functions of order 0 and 1. The existence of this solution, further aided by computer programs in Maple, led to the existence of a linearly independent basis of solutions of the differential equation. In this paper a new proof of the existence of this solution base is given, on using the advanced theory of special functions in the complex plane. The methods lead to the development of analytical properties of these solutions, in particular the series expansions of all solutions at the regular singularity at the origin of the complex plane.     

Euler integral symmetries for a deformed Heun equation and symmetries of the Painlevé PVI equation

Euler integral transformations relate solutions of ordinary linear differential equations and generate integral representations of the solutions in a number of cases or relations between solutions of constrained equations (Euler symmetries) in some other cases. These relations lead to the corresponding symmetries of the monodromy matrices. We discuss Euler symmetries in the case of the simplest Fuchsian system that is equivalent to a deformed Heun equation, which is in turn related to the Painlevé PVI equation. The existence of integral symmetries of the deformed Heun equation leads to the corresponding symmetries of the PVI equation. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 155, No. 2, pp. 252–264, May, 2008.     

A singular approach to a class of impulsive differential equation

In this paper, a singular approach to study the solutions of an impulsive differential equation from a qualitative and quantitative point of view is proposed. In the approach, a suitable singular perturbation term is introduced and a singularly perturbed system with infinite initial values is defined, in which, the reduced problem of the singularly perturbed system is exactly the impulsive differential equation under consideration. Then the boundary layer function method is applied to construct the uniformly valid asymptotic solutions to the singularly perturbed system. Based on the continuous asymptotic solution, the discontinuous solutions of the impulsive differential equation are described and approximated. An example, namely, a classical Lotka-Volterra prey-predator model with one pulse is carried out to illustrate the main results.     

On Schottky groups arising from the hypergeometric equation with imaginary exponents

In an article by Sasaki and Yoshida (2000), we encountered Schottky groups of genus 2 as monodromy groups of the hypergeometric equation with purely imaginary exponents. In this paper we study automorphic functions for these Schottky groups, and give a conjectural infinite product formula for the elliptic modular function .

     

Picard and Chazy solutions to the Painlevé VI equation

We study the solutions of a particular family of Painlevé VI equations with parameters and , for . We show that in the case of half-integer , all solutions can be written in terms of known functions and they are of two types: a two-parameter family of solutions found by Picard and a new one-parameter family of classical solutions which we call Chazy solutions. We give explicit formulae for them and completely determine their asymptotic behaviour near the singular points and their nonlinear monodromy. We study the structure of analytic continuation of the solutions to the PVI equation for any such that . As an application, we classify all the algebraic solutions. For half-integer, we show that they are in one to one correspondence with regular polygons or star-polygons in the plane. For integer, we show that all algebraic solutions belong to a one-parameter family of rational solutions. Received: 23 February 1999 / Accepted: 10 January 2001 / Published online: 18 June 2001     

Structural joining method for the solution of the model Lighthill equation with a regular singular point

Using the structural joining method, we construct a uniformly valid explicit asymptotics of the solution of a perturbed model Lighthill equation with a regular singular point.     

Approximate solution of one singular integro-differential equation

In this paper we construct and theoretically justify a computational scheme for solving the Cauchy problem for a singular integro-differential equation of the first-order, where the integral over a segment of the real axis is understood in the sense of the Cauchy principal value. In addition, we study and solve approximately the integral equation with a special logarithmic kernel. We obtain uniform estimates for errors of approximate formulas. Orders of errors of approximate solutions are proved to be proportional to the order of the approximation error for the derivative of the density of the singular integral in the integro-differential equation.