Numerical solution of the Painlevé V equation

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for the fifth Painlevé equation is proposed. The difficulty of the problem is that the unknown function can have movable singular points of the pole type; moreover, the equation has singularities at the points where the solution vanishes or takes the value 1. The positions of all of 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. Numerical results illustrating the potentials of this method are presented.     

Numerical solution of the Painlevé IV equation

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for the fourth Painlevé equation is proposed. The difficulty of the problem is that the unknown function can have movable singular points of the pole type; moreover, the equation may have singularities at the points where the solution vanishes. The positions of poles and zeros of the solution 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 in the corresponding point and its neighborhood. Numerical results confirming the efficiency of this method are presented.     

Numerical solution of the Cauchy problem for Painlevé III

We suggest a numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for the third Painlevé equation. The solution of this problem is complicated by the fact that the unknown function can have movable singular points of the pole type, and in addition, the equation has a singularity at the points where the solution vanishes. The position of poles and zeros of the function is not given and is specified in the course of the solution. The method is based on the passage, in a neighborhood of these points, to an auxiliary system of differential equations for which the equation and the corresponding solution has no singularity in that neighborhood and at the pole or zero itself. We present the results of numerical experiments, which justify the efficiency of the suggested method.     

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     

Numerical solution of the Cauchy problem for the Painlevé I and II equations

A numerical method for solving the Cauchy problem for the first and second Painlevé differential equations is proposed. The presence of movable poles of the solution is allowed. The positions of the poles are not a priori known and are determined in the process of solving the equation. The proposed method is based on the transition to an auxiliary system of differential equations in a neighborhood of a pole. The equations in this system and its solution have no singularities in either the pole or its neighborhood. Numerical results confirming the efficiency of this method are presented.     

Numerical solution of the coupled viscous Burgers’ equation

In the present paper, a numerical method is proposed for the numerical solution of a coupled system of viscous Burgers’ equation with appropriate initial and boundary conditions, by using the cubic B-spline collocation scheme on the uniform mesh points. The scheme is based on Crank–Nicolson formulation for time integration and cubic B-spline functions for space integration. The method is shown to be unconditionally stable using von-Neumann method. The accuracy of the proposed method is demonstrated by applying it on three test problems. Computed results are depicted graphically and are compared with those already available in the literature. The obtained numerical solutions indicate that the method is reliable and yields results compatible with the exact solutions.     

Solution of the equivalence problem for the Painlevé IV equation

We solve the equivalence problem for the Painlevé IV equation, formulating the necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of the invariants of point transformations for an arbitrary second-order differential equation to be equivalent to the Painlevé IV equation. We separately consider three pairwise nonequivalent cases: both equation parameters are zero, a = b = 0; only one parameter is zero, b = 0; and the parameter b ?? 0. In all cases, we give an explicit point substitution transforming an equation satisfying the described test into the Painlevé IV equation and also give expressions for the equation parameters in terms of invariants.     

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.     

On some special solutions of the fifth Painlevé equation

Four kinds of special solutions of the fifth Painlevé equation are described. Their asymptotic expansions for t→+∞ are given. The corresponding monodromy data are calculated. This gives the possibility of obtaining connection formulas. Bibliography: 7 titles. Dedicated to the memory of A. P. Oskolkov Translated fromZapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 243, 1997, pp. 10–18. Translated by F. V. Andreev.     

Poles of tritronquée solution to the Painlevé I equation and cubic anharmonic oscillator

The distribution of poles of zero-parameter solution to Painlevé I, specified by P. Boutroux as intégrale tritronquée, is studied in the complex plane. This solution has regular asymptotics ? $ \sqrt {{z \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {z 6}} \right. \kern-0em} 6}} $ + O(1) as z → ∞, | arg z| < 4π/5. At the sector | arg z| > 4π/5 it is a meromorphic function with regular asymptotic distribution of poles at infinity. This fact together with numeric simulations for |z| < const allowed B. Dubrovin to make a conjecture that all poles of the intégrale tritronquée belong to this sector. As a step to prove this conjecture, we study the Riemann-Hilbert (RH) problem related to the specified solution of the Painlevé I equation. It is “undressed” to a similar RH problem for the Schrödinger equation with cubic potential. The latter determines all coordinates of poles for the intégrale tritronquée via a Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization conditions.     

Asymptotic expansions for partial solutions of the sixth Painlevé equation

A formalism for an averaging method for the Painlevé equations, in particular, the sixth equation, is developed. The problem is to describe the asymptotic behavior of the sixth Painlevé transcendental in the case where the module of the independent variable tends to infinity. The corresponding expansions contain an elliptic function (ansatz) in the principal term. The parameters of this function depend on the variable because of the modulation equation. The elliptic ansatz and the modulation equation for the sixth Painlevé equation are obtained in their explicit form. A partial solution of the modulation equation leading to a previously unknown asymptotic expansion for the partial solution of the sixth Painlevé equation is obtained.     

On a relationship between solutions of the third Painlevé equation

The direct and inverse Bäcklund transformations for the third Painlevé equation in the case O is used to obtain a nonlinear functional relationship connecting the solutions of this equation for different values of the parameters that occur in it.Belarus State University of Information Technology and Electronics. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 102, No. 3, pp. 364–366, March, 1995.     

Hierarchies of exact solutions for the discrete third Painlevé equation

In this paper, we construct hierarchies of rational solutions of the discrete third Painlevé equation (d-PIII) by applying Schlesinger transformations to simple initial solutions. We show how these solutions reduce in the continuous limit to the hierarchies of rational solutions of the third Painlevé equation (PIII). We also study the solutions of d-PIII which are expressed in terms of discrete Bessel functions and show that these solutions reduce in the continuous limit the hierarchies of special function solutions of PIII.     

Euler integral symmetries for the confluent Heun equation and symmetries of the Painlevé equation PV

Euler integral symmetries relate solutions of ordinary linear differential equations and generate integral representations of the solutions in several cases or relations between solutions of constrained equations. These relations lead to the corresponding symmetries of the monodromy matrices for the differential equations. We discuss Euler symmetries in the case of the deformed confluent Heun equation, which is in turn related to the Painlevé equation PV. The existence of symmetries of the linear equations leads to the corresponding symmetries of the Painlevé equation of the Okamoto type. The choice of the system of linear equations that reduces to the deformed confluent Heun equation is the starting point for the constructions. The basic technical problem is to choose the bijective relation between the system parameters and the parameters of the deformed confluent Heun equation. The solution of this problem is quite large, and we use the algebraic computing system Maple for this.     

Total integrals of Ablowitz-Segur solutions for the inhomogeneous Painlevé II equation

In this paper, we establish a formula determining the value of the Cauchy principal value integrals of the real and purely imaginary Ablowitz-Segur solutions for the inhomogeneous second Painlevé equation. Our approach relies on the analysis of the corresponding Riemann-Hilbert problem and the construction of an appropriate parametrix in a neighborhood of the origin. Obtained integral formulas are consistent with already known analogous results for the Ablowitz-Segur solutions of the homogeneous Painlevé II equation.     

Basic expansions of solutions to the sixth Painlevé equation in the generic case

We consider the sixth Painlevé equation for generic values of its four complex parameters. By methods of power geometry, we obtain those asymptotic expansions of solutions to the equation near the singular point x = 0 for which the order of the first term is less than unity. We refer to these expansions as basic expansions. They form 10 families and include expansions of four types, namely, power, power-logarithmic, complicated, and exotic. All other asymptotic expansions of solutions to the equation near the three singular points x = 0, x = 1, and x = ∞ can be computed from the basic expansions with the use of symmetries of the equation. Most of these expansions are new.