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Three Lessons on the Painlevé Property and the Painlevé Equations

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Discrete Integrable Systems

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While this school focuses on discrete integrable systems we feel it necessary, if only for reasons of comparison, to go back to fundamentals and introduce the basic notion of the Painlevé property for continuous systems together with a critical analysis of what is called the Painlevé test. The extension of the latter to what is called the poly-Painlevé test is also introduced. Finally we devote a lesson to the proof that the Painlevé equations do have the Painlevé property.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA

    M.D. Kruskal

  2. GMPIB, Université Paris VII, Tour 24-14, 5e étage, case 7021, 75251 Paris, France

    B. Grammaticos

  3. Department of Mathematics, Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Pondicherry 605008, India

    T. Tamizhmani

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Basil Grammaticos Thamizharasi Tamizhmani Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach

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Kruskal, M., Grammaticos, B., Tamizhmani, T. Three Lessons on the Painlevé Property and the Painlevé Equations. In: Grammaticos, B., Tamizhmani, T., Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Y. (eds) Discrete Integrable Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 644. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40357-9_1

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