Singular manifold analysis of the Einstein vacuum field equations (Q1074008)

According to a conjecture of Ablowitz et al. [\textit{M. J. Ablowitz}, \textit{A. Ramani} and \textit{H. Segur}, J. Math. Phys. 21, 715-721 (1980; Zbl 0445.35056)] if a system of partial differential equations (PDE) is integrable, then the ordinary differential equations obtained by the exact reduction of the PDE has Painlevé property, that is, all its moveable singularities are simple poles. More recently \textit{J. Weiss}, \textit{M. Tabor} and \textit{G. Carnevale} [ibid. 24, 522-526 (1983; Zbl 0514.35083)] have introduced a generalization of the Painlevé property of partial differential equations. Using this latter approach the author investigates the Painlevé property of the vacuum Einstein field equations and finds that the property is present when space time admits two commuting non-null Killing vector fields.