Large-degree asymptotics of rational Painleve-II functions. I

2013/10/08 by Buckingham, Robert J., Miller, Peter D.
#34E05 (Secondary) #34M55 (Primary) 34M50 #Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA) #Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.2276

Abstract

Rational solutions of the inhomogeneous Painleve-II equation and of a related coupled Painleve-II system have recently arisen in studies of fluid vortices and of the sine-Gordon equation. For the sine-Gordon application in particular it is of interest to understand the large-degree asymptotic behavior of the rational Painleve-II functions. We explicitly compute the leading-order large-degree asymptotics of these two families of rational functions valid in the whole complex plane with the exception of a neighborhood of a certain piecewise-smooth closed curve. We obtain rigorous error bounds by using the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest-descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems.

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