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Discrete Painlevé Equations
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Nalini Joshi, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Publication: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
Publication Year:
2019; Volume 131
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-5038-0 (print); 978-1-4704-5235-3 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cbms/131
MathSciNet review: MR3931704
MSC: Primary 39A30; Secondary 14E07, 14E15, 32S45, 33E17, 34M55, 39A12
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- Introduction
- A dynamical systems approach
- Initial value spaces
- Foliated initial value spaces
- Cremona mappings
- Asymptotic analysis
- Lax pairs
- Riemann-Hilbert problems
- Foliations and vector bundles
- Projective spaces
- Reflection groups
- Lists of discrete-Painlevé equations
- Asymptotics of discrete equations
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