Asymptotic behavior of the fourth Painlevé transcendents in the space of initial values (Q329462)

This paper is a continuation of the study of the first author on the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the Painlevé equations [\textit{J. J. Duistermaat} and \textit{N. Joshi}, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 202, No. 3, 707--785 (2011; Zbl 1278.34102); \textit{P. Howes} and \textit{N. Joshi}, Constr. Approx. 39, No. 1, 11--41 (2014; Zbl 1315.34098)] when the independent variable \(x\) tends to infinity in the corresponding Okamoto's space of initial values. In particular, here the authors investigate the fourth Painlevé equation. They prove that the complex limit set of any solution of the fourth Painlevé equation is repelling, i.e. the solutions do not intersect it. Moreover, the authors prove that this limit set is nonempty, compact, connected, and invariant under the flow of the corresponding autonomous system. These results lead the authors to the statement that each non-rational solution of the fourth Painlevé equation has infinitely many zeros and poles.