Nonlinear Sciences – Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Scientific paper
2008-07-23
Nonlinear Sciences
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
23 pages, IOP style. Title changed, and connection with Umemura polynomials added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/41/48/485203
The Yablonskii-Vorob'ev polynomials $y_{n}(t)$, which are defined by a second order bilinear differential-difference equation, provide rational solutions of the Toda lattice. They are also polynomial tau-functions for the rational solutions of the second Painlev\'{e} equation ($P_{II}$). Here we define two-variable polynomials $Y_{n}(t,h)$ on a lattice with spacing $h$, by considering rational solutions of the discrete time Toda lattice as introduced by Suris. These polynomials are shown to have many properties that are analogous to those of the Yablonskii-Vorob'ev polynomials, to which they reduce when $h=0$. They also provide rational solutions for a particular discretisation of $P_{II}$, namely the so called {\it alternate discrete} $P_{II}$, and this connection leads to an expression in terms of the Umemura polynomials for the third Painlev\'{e} equation ($P_{III}$). It is shown that B\"{a}cklund transformation for the alternate discrete Painlev\'{e} equation is a symplectic map, and the shift in time is also symplectic. Finally we present a Lax pair for the alternate discrete $P_{II}$, which recovers Jimbo and Miwa's Lax pair for $P_{II}$ in the continuum limit $h\to 0$.
Common Alan K.
Hone Andrew N. W.
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