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Discrete Painleve equations: coalescences, limits and degeneracies

Abstract

Starting from the standard form of the five discrete Painlevé equations we show how one can obtain (through appropriate limits) a host of new equations which are also the discrete analogues of the continuous Painlevé equations. A particularly interesting technique is the one based on the assumption that some simplification takes place in the autonomous form of the mapping following which the deautonomization leads to a new $n$-dependence and introduces more new discrete Painlevé equations.

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A. Ramani, B. Grammaticos. 1995-11-02. Discrete Painleve equations: coalescences, limits and degeneracies. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(95)00439-4

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