Universal characters and \(q\)-Painlevé systems (Q818608)

In [``Universal characters and an extension of the KP hierarchy'', Commun. Math. Phys. 248, No. 1, 501--526 (2004)], the author used the so-called ``universal characters'' to define the UC-hierarchy, an extension of the KP-hierarchy. Universal characters are a bivariate generalization of Schur polynomials. In the present paper, the author introduces a \(q\)-analogue of the UC-hieracrchy. It is an integrable system of \(q\)-difference equations, from which he is able to derive rational solutions of \(q\)-Painlevé equations, by a process known as ``similarity reduction''.