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Weiying Hu

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Singular asymptotics for solutions of the inhomogeneous Painlevé II equation

We consider a family of solutions to the Painlevé II equation $$ u''(x)=2u^3(x)+xu(x)-α\qquad \textrm{with } \a \in \mathbb{R} \cut \{0\}, $$ which have infinitely many poles on $(-\infty, 0)$. Using Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems, we rigorously derive their singular asymptotics as $x \to -\infty$. In the meantime, we extend the existing asymptotic results when $x\to +\infty$ from $\a-\frac{1}{2} \notin \mathbb{Z}$ to any real $\a$. The connection formulas are also obtained.

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On the quasi-Ablowitz-Segur and quasi-Hastings-McLeod solutions of the inhomogeneous Painlevé II equation

We consider the quasi-Ablowitz-Segur and quasi-Hastings-McLeod solutions of the inhomogeneous Painlevé II equation $$ u"(x)=2u^3(x)+xu(x)-α\qquad \textrm{for } α\in \mathbb{R} \textrm{ and } |α| > \frac{1}{2}. $$ These solutions are obtained from the classical Ablowitz-Segur and Hastings-McLeod solutions via the Bäcklund transformation, and satisfy the same asymptotic behaviors when $x \to \pm \infty$. For $|α| > 1/2$, we show that the quasi-Ablowitz-Segur and quasi-Hastings-McLeod solutions possess $[ \, |α| + \frac{1}{2} \, ]$ simple poles on the real axis, which rigorously justifies the numerical results in Fornberg and Weideman (Found. Comput. Math., 14 (2014), no. 5, 985-1016).

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Connection formulas for the Ablowitz-Segur solutions of the inhomogeneous Painlevé II equation

We consider the second Painlevé equation $$ u"(x)=2u^3(x)+xu(x)-α, $$ where $α$ is a nonzero constant. Using the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method for Riemann-Hilbert problems, we rigorously prove the asymptotics as $x \to \pm \infty$ for both the real and purely imaginary Ablowitz-Segur solutions, as well as the corresponding connection formulas. We also show that the real Ablowitz-Segur solutions have no real poles when $α\in (-1/2, 1/2)$.

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Uniform Asymptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials Arising from Coherent States

In this paper, we study a family of orthogonal polynomials $\{ϕ_n(z)\}$ arising from nonlinear coherent states in quantum optics. Based on the three-term recurrence relation only, we obtain a uniform asymptotic expansion of $ϕ_n(z)$ as the polynomial degree $n$ tends to infinity. Our asymptotic results suggest that the weight function associated with the polynomials has an unusual singularity, which has never appeared for orthogonal polynomials in the Askey scheme. Our main technique is the Wang and Wong's difference equation method. In addition, the limiting zero distribution of the polynomials $ϕ_n(z)$ is provided.

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