Confluent Darboux Transformations and Wronskians for Algebraic Solutions of the Painlevé III ( D 7 ) Equation

Joe W. E. Harrow and Andrew N. W. Hone ()
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Joe W. E. Harrow: School of Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NF, UK
Andrew N. W. Hone: School of Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NF, UK

Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-38

Abstract: Darboux transformations are relations between the eigenfunctions and coefficients of a pair of linear differential operators, while Painlevé equations are nonlinear ordinary differential equations whose solutions arise in diverse areas of applied mathematics and mathematical physics. Here, we describe the use of confluent Darboux transformations for Schrödinger operators, and how they give rise to explicit Wronskian formulae for certain algebraic solutions of Painlevé equations. As a preliminary illustration, we briefly describe how the Yablonskii–Vorob’ev polynomials arise in this way, thus providing well-known expressions for the tau functions of the rational solutions of the Painlevé II equation. We then proceed to apply the method to obtain the main result, namely, a new Wronskian representation for the Ohyama polynomials, which correspond to the algebraic solutions of the Painlevé III equation of type D 7 .

Keywords: Darboux transformation; Painleve equation; Wronskian (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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