| Abstract: | It is shown that the self-similar solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations in the cylindrical case describe the isomonodromic deformations of ordinary linear differential equations with rational coefficients. New types of such solutions, expressed in terms of the fifth Painlevé transcendent, are found.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova Akademii Nauk SSSR, Vol. 181, pp. 65–92, 1990.The author is grateful to A. R. Its and V. V. Matveev for the discussion of the results and for support. |
