Painlevé analysis, conservation laws, and symmetry of perturbed nonlinear equations (Q1100645)

We consider the Lie-Bäcklund symmetries and conservation laws of a perturbed KdV equation and NLS equation. The arbitrary coefficients of the perturbing terms can be related to the condition of existence of nontrivial LB symmetry generator. When the perturbed KdV equation is subjected to Painlevé analysis à la Weiss, it is found that the resonance position changes compared to the unperturbed one. We prove the compatibility of the overdetermined set of equations obtained at the different stages of recursion relations, at least for one branch. All other branches are l. 283.10032), \textit{E. Wirsing} gave an elementary method to estimate from above as well as, and this was new at the time, from below the remainder term \(r_ n(x)\) in the Gauss-Kusmin-Lévy problem. The estimates depend upon an auxiliary function \(\phi\). Wirsing mentions two choices for \(\phi\) ; the first choice shows \(| r_ n(x)|\) to lie between \(c_ 1(0,29)^ n\) and \(c_ 2(0,31)^ n\), whereas the second yields \(c_ 1(0,302)^ n\) and \(c_ 2(0,305)^ n\) instead. Wirsing remarks that the first estimate is within reach of paper and pencil while for the second one a small computer is more adequate. The paper under review shows that a modest calculator (TI-30) will also do. It repeats Wirsing's calculations, going into much detail. Some other choices for \(\phi\) are discussed. In view of the second part of Wirsing's paper, in which he extracts the first term, containing the factor \(\lambda^ n\), \(\lambda =0,303 663 0029...\), from an asymptotic expansion for \(r_ n(x)\), all these efforts however seem a little bit superfluous.