Isomonodromic Laplace transform with coalescing eigenvalues and confluence of Fuchsian singularities (Q2046828)

In this paper, the autor introduces an isomonodromic Laplace transform that relates solutions of two Frobenius integrable Pfaffian systems that express the isomonodromy of two \(n\)-dimensional differential systems with different kind of singularities. The first isomonodromic system \[\, \frac{d Y}{d z}=\left(\Lambda(u) + \frac{A(u)}{z}\right)\,Y, \quad \Lambda(u)=\mathrm{diag} (u_1, \ldots, u_n) \,\] has a Fuchsian singularity at \(z=0\) and an irregular singularity at \(z=\infty\) of Poincaré rank 1, while the second isomonodromic system \[\, \frac{d \Psi}{d \lambda}=\left(\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{B_k(u)}{\lambda-u_k}\right)\,\Psi, \quad B_k=-E_k (A(u)+I) \,\] is a Fuchsian system. Here, \(E_k\) is a matrix, whose entries are zero, except for \((E_k)_{kk}=1\) and the parameters of deformation \(u=(u_1, \ldots, u_n)\) vary in a polydisc containing a locus of coalescence points such that \(u_i=u_j\) for some \(1 \leq i \neq j \leq n\). This result is based on the construction of such selected \(\vec{\Psi}_k(\lambda, u)\) and singular \(\vec{\Psi}_k^{(sing)}(\lambda, u),\,k=1,\ldots, n\) vector solutions of the Fuchsian Pfaffian system, that allows the author to introduce isomonodromic connection coefficients. With this construction the author extends the results of \textit{W. Balser} et al. [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 12, 691--721 (1981; Zbl 0468.34024)] to the case of isomonodromic deformations with coalescing Fuchsian singularities \(u_1, \ldots, u_n\). Utilizing the obtained relation the author proves in terms of the isomonodromic Laplace transform the main results in [\textit{G. Cotti} et al., Duke Math. J. 168, No. 6, 967--1108 (2019; Zbl 1416.34079)] when \(\Lambda(u)\) has coalescing eigenvalues.