Variations for some Painlevé equations

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Abstract: This paper first discusses irreducibility of a Painlev'e equation P. We explain how the Painlev'e property is helpful for the computation of special classical and algebraic solutions. As in a paper of Morales-Ruiz we associate an autonomous Hamiltonian mathbbH to a Painlev'e equation P. Complete integrability of mathbbH is shown to imply that all solutions to P are classical (which includes algebraic), so in particular P is solvable by quadratures. Next, we show that the variational equation of P at a given algebraic solution coincides with the normal variational equation of mathbbH at the corresponding solution. Finally, we test the Morales-Ramis theorem in all cases P2 to P5 where algebraic solutions are present, by showing how our results lead to a quick computation of the component of the identity of the differential Galois group for the first two variational equations. As expected there are no cases where this group is commutative.



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