Integrability and equivalence relationships of six integrable coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations

In this paper, we investigate the integrability and equivalence relationships of six coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations. It is shown that the six coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations are identical under certain invertible transformations. We reconsider the matrix representations of the prolongation algebra for the Painlevé integrable coupled Korteweg–de Vries equation in [Appl. Math. Lett. 23 (2010) 665‐669] and propose a new Lax pair of this equation that can be used to construct exact solutions with vanishing boundary conditions. It is also pointed out that all the six coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations have fourth‐order Lax pairs instead of the fifth‐order ones. Moreover, the Painlevé integrability of the six coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations are examined. It is proved that the six coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations are all Painlevé integrable and have the same resonant points, which further determines the equivalence among them. Finally, the auto‐Bäcklund transformation and exact solutions of one of the six coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations are proposed explicitly. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The numerical solution of the second Painlevé equation

The Painlevé equations were discovered by Painlevé, Gambier and their colleagues during studying a nonlinear second‐order ordinary differential equation. The six equations which bear Painlevé's name are irreducible in the sense that their general solutions cannot be expressed in terms of known functions. Painlevé has derived these equations on the sole requirement that their solutions should be free from movable singularities. Many situations in mathematical physics reduce ultimately to Painlevé equations: applications including statistical mechanics, plasma physics, nonlinear waves, quantum gravity, quantum field theory, general relativity, nonlinear optics, and fiber optics. This fact has caused a significant interest to the study of these equations in recent years. In this study, the solution of the second Painlevé equation is investigated by means of Adomian decomposition method, homotopy perturbation method, and Legendre tau method. Then a numerical evaluation and comparison with the results obtained by the method of continuous analytic continuation are included. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2009     

Generalization of the simplest equation method for nonlinear non-autonomous differential equations

It is known that the simplest equation method is applied for finding exact solutions of autonomous nonlinear differential equations. In this paper we extend this method for finding exact solutions of non-autonomous nonlinear differential equations (DEs). We applied the generalized approach to look for exact special solutions of three Painlevé equations. As ODE of lower order than Painlevé equations the Riccati equation is taken. The obtained exact special solutions are expressed in terms of the special functions defined by linear ODEs of the second order.     

Singularity analysis of a variant of the Painlevé–Ince equation

We examine by singularity analysis an equation derived by reduction using Lie point symmetries from the Euler–Bernoulli Beam equation which is the Painlevé–Ince Equation with additional terms. The equation possesses the same leading-order behaviour and resonances as the Painlevé–Ince Equation and has a Right Painlevé Series. However, it has no Left Painlevé Series. A conjecture for the existence of Left Painlevé Series for ordinary differential equations is given.     

On the relation between the continuous and discrete Painlevé equations

A method for deriving difference equations (the discrete Painlevé equations in particular) from the Bäcklund transformations of the continuous Painlevé equations is discussed. This technique can be used to derive several of the known discrete painlevé equations (in particular, the first and second discrete Painlevé equations and some of their alternative versions). The Painlevé equations possess hierarchies of rational solutions and one-parameter families of solutions expressible in terms of the classical special functions for special values of the parameters. Hence, the aforementioned relations can be used to generate hierarchies of exact solutions for the associated discrete Painlevé equations. Exact solutions of the Painlevé equations simultaneously satisfy both a differential equation and a difference equation, analogously to the special functions.     

The Generating Function for the Airy Point Process and a System of Coupled Painlevé II Equations

For a wide class of Hermitian random matrices, the limit distribution of the eigenvalues close to the largest one is governed by the Airy point process. In such ensembles, the limit distribution of the k th largest eigenvalue is given in terms of the Airy kernel Fredholm determinant or in terms of Tracy–Widom formulas involving solutions of the Painlevé II equation. Limit distributions for quantities involving two or more near‐extreme eigenvalues, such as the gap between the k th and the ℓth largest eigenvalue or the sum of the k largest eigenvalues, can be expressed in terms of Fredholm determinants of an Airy kernel with several discontinuities. We establish simple Tracy–Widom type expressions for these Fredholm determinants, which involve solutions to systems of coupled Painlevé II equations, and we investigate the asymptotic behavior of these solutions.     

Negative‐order modified KdV equations: multiple soliton and multiple singular soliton solutions

In this work, we develop the negative‐order modified Korteweg–de Vries (nMKdV) equation. By means of the recursion operator of the modified KdV equation, we derive negative order forms, one for the focusing branch and the other for the defocusing form. Using the Weiss–Tabor–Carnevale method and Kruskal's simplification, we prove the Painlevé integrability of the nMKdV equations. We derive multiple soliton solutions for the first form and multiple singular soliton solutions for the second form. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the question of representation of ultrafilters in a product of measurable spaces

We consider nonlinear ordinary differential equations up to the sixth order that are associated with the heat equation. Each of them is subjected to the Painlevé analysis. For the fourth- and sixth-order equations we obtain a criterion for having the Painlevé property; for the fifth-order equation we formulate necessary conditions for passing the Painlevé test. We also present a fifth-order equation analogous to the Chazy-3 equation.     

Rational Solutions of Painlevé Equations

With Bäcklund transformations, we construct explicit solutions of Painlevé equations 2 and 4. Independently, we find solutions of degenerate cases of equations 3 and 5. The six Painlevé transcendents are referred to as 1–6.     

On the nesting of Painlevé hierarchies: A Hamiltonian approach

We consider the phenomenon whereby two different Painlevé hierarchies, related to the same hierarchy of completely integrable equations, are such that solutions of one member of one of the Painlevé hierarchies are also solutions of a higher-order member of the other Painlevé hierarchy. An explanation is given in terms of the Hamiltonian structures of the related underlying completely integrable hierarchies, and is sufficiently generally formulated so as to be applicable equally to both continuous and discrete Painlevé hierarchies. Special integrals of a further Painlevé hierarchy related by Bäcklund transformation to the other Painlevé hierarchy mentioned above can also be constructed. Examples of the application of this approach to Painlevé hierarchies related to the Korteweg–de Vries, dispersive water wave, Toda and Volterra integrable hierarchies are considered. Our results provide further evidence of the importance of the underlying structures of related completely integrable hierarchies in understanding the properties of Painlevé hierarchies.     

Higher Painlevé transcendents as special solutions of some nonlinear integrable hierarchies

It is well known that the self-similar solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation are expressed via the solutions of the first and second Painlevé equations. In this paper we solve this problem for all equations from the Korteveg-de Vries, modified Korteweg-de Vries, Kaup-Kupershmidt, Caudrey-Dodd-Gibbon and Fordy-Gibbons hierarchies. We show that the self-similar solutions of equations corresponding to hierarchies mentioned above can be found by means of the general solutions of higher-order Painlevé hierarchies introduced more than ten years ago.     

Matrix Painlevé II equations

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics - We use the Painlevé–Kovalevskaya test to find three matrix versions of the Painlevé II equation. We interpret all these equations as...     

A method for calculating the Painlevé transcendents

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for all the six Painlevé equations is proposed. The difficulty of solving these equations is that the unknown functions can have movable (that is, dependent on the initial data) singular points of the pole type. Moreover, the Painlevé III–VI equations may have singularities at points where the solution takes certain finite values. The positions of all these singularities are not a priori known and are determined in the process of solving the equation. The proposed method is based on the transition to auxiliary systems of differential equations in neighborhoods of the indicated points. The equations in these systems and their solutions have no singularities at the corresponding point and its neighborhood. Such auxiliary equations are derived for all Painlevé equations and for all types of singularities. Efficient criteria for transition to auxiliary systems are formulated, and numerical results illustrating the potentials of the method are presented.     

Quicksilver Solutions of a q‐Difference First Painlevé Equation

In this paper, we present new, unstable solutions, which we call quicksilver solutions, of a q‐difference Painlevé equation in the limit as the independent variable approaches infinity. The specific equation we consider in this paper is a discrete version of the first Painlevé equation (qP_I), whose phase space (space of initial values) is a rational surface of type . We describe four families of almost stationary behaviors, but focus on the most complicated case, which is the vanishing solution. We derive this solution's formal power series expansion, describe the growth of its coefficients, and show that, while the series is divergent, there exist true analytic solutions asymptotic to such a series in a certain q‐domain. The method, while demonstrated for qP_I, is also applicable to other q‐difference Painlevé equations.     

Bäcklund transformations for discrete Painlevé equations: Discrete PII–PV

Transformation properties of discrete Painlevé equations are investigated by using an algorithmic method. This method yields explicit transformations which relates the solutions of discrete Painlevé equations, discrete P_II–P_V, with different values of parameters. The particular solutions which are expressible in terms of the discrete analogue of the classical special functions of discrete Painlevé equations can also be obtained from these transformations.     

Affine Weyl group symmetries of Frobenius Painlevé equations

In this paper, we introduce a Frobenius Painlevé IV equation and the corresponding Hamilton system, and we give the symmetric form of the Frobenius Painlevé IV equation. Then, we construct the Lax pair of the Frobenius Painlevé IV equation. Furthermore, we recall the Frobenius modified KP hierarchy and the Frobenius KP hierarchy by bilinear equations, then we show how to get Frobenius Painlevé IV equation from the Frobenius modified KP hierarchy. In order to study the different aspects of the Frobenius Painlevé IV equation, we give the similarity reduction and affine Weyl group symmetry of the equation. Similarly, we introduce a Frobenius Painlevé II equation and show the connection between the Frobenius modified KP hierarchy and the Frobenius Painlevé II equation.     

A method for the numerical solution of the Painlevé equations

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for all the six Painlevé equations is proposed. The difficulty of solving these equations is that the unknown functions can have movable (that is, dependent on the initial data) singular points of the pole type. Moreover, the Painlevé III–VI equations may have singularities at points where the solution takes certain finite values. The positions of all these singularities are not a priori known and are determined in the process of solving the equation. The proposed method is based on the transition to auxiliary systems of differential equations in neighborhoods of the indicated points. The equations in these systems and their solutions have no singularities at the corresponding point and its neighborhood. Such auxiliary equations are derived for all Painlevé equations and for all types of singularities. Efficient criteria for transition to auxiliary systems are formulated, and numerical results illustrating the potentials of the method are presented.     

Power-elliptic expansions of solutions to an ordinary differential equation

A rather general ordinary differential equation is considered that can be represented as a polynomial in variables and derivatives. For this equation, the concept of power-elliptic expansions of its solutions is introduced and a method for computing them is described. It is shown that such expansions of solutions exist for the first and second Painlevé equations.     

Nonautonomous first integrals and general solutions of the KdV‐Burgers and mKdV‐Burgers equations with the source

The method for constructing first integrals and general solutions of nonlinear ordinary differential equations is presented. The method is based on index accounting of the Fuchs indices, which appeared during the Painlevé test of a nonlinear differential equation. The Fuchs indices indicate us the leading members of the first integrals for the origin differential equation. Taking into account the values of the Fuchs indices, we can construct the auxiliary equation, which allows to look for the first integrals of nonlinear differential equations. The method is used to obtain the first integrals and general solutions of the KdV‐Burgers and the mKdV‐Burgers equations with a source. The nonautonomous first integrals in the polynomials form are found. The general solutions of these nonlinear differential equations under at some additional conditions on the parameters of differential equations are also obtained. Illustrations of some solutions of the KdV‐Burgers and the mKdV‐Burgers are given.