A computational exploration of the second Painlevé equation

DOI10.1007/s10208-013-9156-xzbMath1305.33034MaRDI QIDQ486676

J. A. C. Weideman, Bengt Fornberg

Publication date: 16 January 2015

Published in: Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10208-013-9156-x

zbMATH Keywords

Painlevé transcendents; connection formulas; \(\mathrm P_{\mathrm{II}}\) equation; pole field solver

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34M55: Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies

33F05: Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions

33E17: Painlevé-type functions

34M40: Stokes phenomena and connection problems (linear and nonlinear) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain

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Uses Software

• DLMF

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