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The discrete Painlevé property is precisely defined, and basic discretization rules to preserve it are stated. The discrete Painlevé test is enriched with a new method which perturbs the continuum limit and generates infinitely many no-log conditions. A general, direct method is provided to search for discrete Lax pairs.
The ``Painlevé analysis'' is quite often perceived as a collection of tricks reserved to experts. The aim of this course is to demonstrate the contrary and to unveil the simplicity and the beauty of a subject which is in fact the theory of the (explicit) integration of nonlinear differential equations. To achieve our goal, we will not start the exposition with a more or less precise ``Painlevé test''. On the contrary, we will finish with it, after a gradual introduction to the rich world of singularities of nonlinear differential equations, so as to remove any cooking recipe. The emphasis is put on embedding each method of the test into the well known theorem of perturbations of Poincaré. A summary can be found at the beginning of each chapter.
Necessary discretization rules to preserve the Painlevé property are stated. A new method is added to the discrete Painlevé test, which perturbs the continuous limit and generates infinitely many no-log conditions.
The perturbation of an exact solution exhibits a movable transcendental essential singularity, thus proving the nonintegrability. Then, all possible exact particular solutions which may be written in closed form are isolated with the perturbative Painlevé test; this proves the inexistence of any vacuum solution other than the three known ones.