Mappings preserving locations of movable poles: a new extension of the truncation method to ordinary differential equations

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/12/4/313zbMATH Open0945.34073arXivsolv-int/9904023OpenAlexW2057482472MaRDI QIDQ4265672FDOQ4265672

Authors: Nalini Joshi, Pilar R. Gordoa, Andrew Pickering 

Publication date: 19 September 2000

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The truncation method is a collective name for techniques that arise from truncating a Laurent series expansion (with leading term) of generic solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Despite its utility in finding Backlund transformations and other remarkable properties of integrable PDEs, it has not been generally extended to ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Here we give a new general method that provides such an extension and show how to apply it to the classical nonlinear ODEs called the Painleve equations. Our main new idea is to consider mappings that preserve the locations of a natural subset of the movable poles admitted by the equation. In this way we are able to recover all known fundamental Backlund transformations for the equations considered. We are also able to derive Backlund transformations onto other ODEs in the Painleve classification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9904023

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zbMATH Keywords

ordinary differential equationsBäcklund transformationsPainlevé equationsPainlevé classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55) Other functions coming from differential, difference and integral equations (33E30)

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