scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1751750

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Authors Peter A. Clarkson, Christopher M. Cosgrove

Publication date 1 June 2003

zbMATH Keywords

Chazy equationChazy hierarchiesexplicit solutionLamé equationLie symmetry theoryPainlevé equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55)

Review text

In this remarkable article, the authors provide a nice insight into the mechanisms of the Lie symmetry theory of ordinary differential equations together with an instructive survey on several related topics within the investigations of the Chazy equation \[ {d^3y\over dx^3}= 2{d^2y\over dx^2}- 3\Biggl({dy\over dx}\Biggr)^2+ \alpha\Biggl(6{dy\over dx}- y^2\Biggr)^2, \] where either \(\alpha= 0\), or \(\alpha= 4/(36- N^2)\) with positive integer \(N\), \(N> 1\), \(N\neq 6\). This is an excellent equation: the solution can be expressed by inversion of a ratio of two hypergeometric functions, it possesses a natural movable boundary, it has the Painlevé property (\(\alpha= 0\) or \(N\geq 2\)), it appears in several physical applications, it admits the Lie symmetry \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})\) and consequently, it may be reduced in order by three: the formula \[ y(x)= 6/\psi_1(u),\quad x= \psi_2(u)/\psi_1(u), \] parametrize the solution (where \(\psi_1\), \(\psi_2\) satisfy the Lamé equation \(d^2\psi/du^2= \wp(y+k)\psi/4(9\alpha- 1)\)). Several alternative solutions through modular forms and other variants of the Lamé equation are noted, too. Altogether, this yields a hierarchy of differential equations with rather complicated singularity structure which can be solved in closed form. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0983.00039].

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