The asymptotic behavior of the discrete spectrum generated by the radial confluent Heun equation with close singularities (Q2654094)

The paper consists of three separate sections. The first one is a personal reminiscence of A. A. Bolibrukh written by S. Yu. Slavyanov, one of the authors. In the second part, a review of the relationship between the Painleve equations and the Heun class of equations is given. In the final part, the behaviour of the eigenvalues generated by the confluent Heun equation for small distances between the regular singularities is considered, which is a new result.