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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2024 Volume 532, Pages 169–211 (Mi znsl7458)

Asymptotics of solutions of the degenerate third Painlevé equation in the neighbourhood of the regular singular point: the isomonodromy deformation approach

A. V. Kitaeva, A. Vartanianb

a Steklov Mathematical Institute, Fontanka 27, St. Petersburg 191023, Russia
b Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424, USA

Abstract: This paper contains several technical refinements of our previously obtained results on the monodromy parametrisation of small-$\tau$ asymptotics of solutions $u(\tau)$ of the degenerate third Painlevé equation,
$$ u^{\prime \prime}(\tau) = \frac{(u^{\prime}(\tau))^{2}}{u(\tau)} - \frac{u^{\prime}(\tau)}{\tau} + \frac{1}{\tau} \left(-8 \varepsilon (u(\tau))^{2} + 2ab \right) + \frac{b^{2}}{u(\tau)}, $$
where $\varepsilon = \pm 1$, $\varepsilon b > 0$, $a \in \mathbb{C},$ and of its associated mole function, $\varphi(\tau)$, which satisfies $\varphi^{\prime}(\tau) = \tfrac{2a}{\tau} + \tfrac{b}{u(\tau)}$. We also describe three families of three-real-parameter solutions $u(\tau)$ which have infinite sequences of zeros converging to the origin of the complex $\tau$-plane. Furthemore, for $a=0$, a numerical visualisation of the formulae connecting the asymptotics as $\tau\to0$ and $\tau\to+\infty$ of solutions $u(\tau)$ and $\varphi(\tau)$ having logarithmic behaviour as $\tau\to0$ is given.

Key words and phrases: Painlevé equation, monodromy data, asymptotics.

UDC: 517

Received: 05.08.2024

Language: English



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