THE SEMINAR

THEORY OF DUALITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS



On the 2nd of October 2014, at 10:15 a.m.

Henryk Żołądek (MIMUW)

will give a talk on

"Painlevé equations in Hamiltonian form,
elliptic integrals and elementary functions"


Abstract
The six Painlevé equations can be rewritten in Hamiltonian forms, with time dependent Hamilton functions. We present a rather new approach to this result, leading to rational Hamilton functions. By a natural extension of the phase space one gets corresponding autonomous Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom. We realize the Bäcklund transformations of Painlevé equations as symplectic birational transformations in C4 and we interpret the cases with classical solutions as the cases of partial integrability of the extended Hamiltonian systems. We prove that the extended Hamiltonian systems do not have any additional algebraic first integral besides known special cases of the third and fifth equations. We also show that the original Painlevé equations admit first integral expressed in elementary functions only in the above special cases. In the proofs we use equations in variations with respect to a parameter and the Liouville's theory of elementary functions.

The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 in the room 2.23 of the main building of the Faculty of Physics (the 2nd floor), Pasteur Str. 5, Warszawa.
Additional information can be found on the webpage http://oldwww.fuw.edu.pl/KMMF/sem.czw.przedp.html.