Transition asymptotics for the Painlevé II transcendent

DOI10.1215/00127094-3714650MaRDI QIDQ516141zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Bothner

Publication date 22 March 2017

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03402, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1481879045

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann-Hilbert problemDeift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent methodtransition asymptoticssecond Painlevé equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Asymptotic properties of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D05) Singularities, monodromy and local behavior of solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain, normal forms (34M35) Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10) Inverse problems (Riemann-Hilbert, inverse differential Galois, etc.) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M50)

Abstract: We consider real-valued solutions $u=u(x|s),xinmathbbR$ of the second Painlev'e equation $u_{xx}=xu+2u^3$ which are parametrized in terms of the monodromy data $sequiv(s_1,s_2,s_3)subsetmathbb{C}^3$ of the associated Flaschka-Newell system of rational differential equations. Our analysis describes the transition, as $xightarrow-infty$, between the oscillatory power-like decay asymptotics for $|s_1|<1$ (Ablowitz-Segur) to the power-like growth behavior for $|s_1|=1$ (Hastings-McLeod) and from the latter to the singular oscillatory power-like growth for $|s_1|>1$ (Kapaev). It is shown that the transition asymptotics are of Boutroux type, i.e. they are expressed in terms of Jacobi elliptic functions. As applications of our results we obtain asymptotics for the Airy kernel determinant $det(I-gamma{K}_{extnormalAi}){|}_{L^2(x,infty)}$ in a double scaling limit $xightarrow-infty,gammauparrow1$ as well as asymptotics for the spectrum of $K_{extnormalAi}$.

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