– can be expressed as the compatibility condition of a linear system, called an isomonodromy problem or Lax pair. Suppose
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is a linear system in which and are matrices and is independent of . Then the equation
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is satisfied provided that
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(32.4.3) is the compatibility condition of (32.4.1). Isomonodromy problems for Painlevé equations are not unique.
is the compatibility condition of (32.4.1) with
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is the compatibility condition of (32.4.1) with
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See Flaschka and Newell (1980).
The compatibility condition of (32.4.1) with
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where is an arbitrary constant, is
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If , then
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and satisfies with
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where
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Note that the right-hand side of the last equation is a first integral of the system (32.4.10)–(32.4.13).
For isomonodromy problems for , , and see Jimbo and Miwa (1981).