Geometry Seminar

 

Birational transformations of the Painlevé equations from their singularity structure

 

Professor Robert Conte

Service de physique de l'état condensé, CEA Saclay, France

(joint work with M. Musette, VUB Brussels)

Abstract

 

We present a consistent truncation, allowing us to obtain the first degree birational transformation found by Okamoto for the sixth Painlevé equation. The discrete equation arising from its contiguity relation is then just the sum of six simple poles. The well known confluence between the Painlevé equations provides a unified picture of all first degree birational transformations for the lower Painlevé equations, ordering them in two distinct sequences.

 

 

 

Date:

November 23, 2006 (Thursday)

Time:

4:00 – 5:00pm

Place:

Room 517, Meng Wah Complex, HKU

 

 

 

 

 

 

All are welcome