Point classification of second order ODEs and its application to Painlevé equations

Abstract

The first part of this work is a review of the point classification of second order ODEs done by Ruslan Sharipov. His works were published in 1997-1998 in the Electronic Archive at LANL. The second part is an application of this classification to Painlevé equations. In particular, it allows us to solve the equivalence problem for Painlevé equations in an algorithmic form.

Open Problems for Painlevé Equations

“…where F is rational in w and dw/dz and locally analytic in z and solved the equations in terms of the first, second and fourth Painlevé transcendents, elliptic functions, or quadratures. For various results on classifying classes of second-order ordinary differential equations, including Painlevé equations, see Babich and Bordag [12], Bagderina [13,15,16,17,18], Bagderina and Tarkhanov [19], Berth and Czichowski [22], Hietarinta and Dryuma [78], Kamran, Lamb and Shadwick [88], Kartak [90,91,92,93], Kossovskiy and Zaitsev [97], Milson and Valiquette [106], Valiquette [139] and Yumaguzhin [145]. Most of these studies are concerned with the invariance of second-order ordinary differential equations of the form…”