Preface |
Preface to the English Edition |
What is a Backlund Transformation? / Chapter 1.: |
Hamiltonian representation of P[subscript II] / 1.1.: |
Immediately accessible solutions / 1.2.: |
Backlund transformations / 1.3.: |
Composing Backlund transformations / 1.4.: |
Generating solutions / 1.5.: |
Picture of classical solutions / 1.6.: |
The Symmetric Form / Chapter 2.: |
The symmetric form of P[subscript IV] / 2.1.: |
Fundamental special solutions / 2.2.: |
Affine Weyl group / 2.3.: |
The symmetric form of P[subscript II] / 2.4.: |
[tau]-Functions / Chapter 3.: |
Poisson structure and the Hamiltonian system / 3.1.: |
[tau]-Functions and their differential equations / 3.2.: |
Backlund transformations of the [tau]-functions / 3.3.: |
Various relations among the [tau]-functions / 3.4.: |
[tau]-Functions for P[subscript II] / 3.5.: |
[tau]-Functions on the Lattice / Chapter 4.: |
The lattice for P[subscript II] / 4.1.: |
The lattice for P[subscript IV] / 4.2.: |
[phi]-Factors and Okamoto polynomials / 4.3.: |
Discrete system of type A[superscript (1) subscript n-1] / 4.4.: |
[tau]-Functions on the A[subscript n-1] lattice / 4.5.: |
Jacobi-Trudi Formula / Chapter 5.: |
Young diagrams and Maya diagrams / 5.1.: |
Formulas of Jacobi-Trudi type / 5.2.: |
Examples of P[subscript IV] and P[subscript II] / 5.3.: |
Schur functions and [phi]-factors / 5.4.: |
Getting Familiar with Determinants / Chapter 6.: |
Basic properties of minor determinants / 6.1.: |
Gauss decomposition and the Jacobi identity / 6.2.: |
Diagonalization of triangular matrices / 6.3.: |
Plucker relations / 6.4.: |
Gauss Decomposition and Birational Transformations / Chapter 7.: |
Birational transformation of the f variables / 7.1.: |
Birational transformations arising from the Gauss decomposition / 7.2.: |
Where are the [tau]-functions? / 7.3.: |
Explicit formulas of Jacobi-Trudi type / 7.4.: |
Birational transformations of type A[subscript infinity] and of type A[superscript (1) subscript n-1] / 7.5.: |
Action of the affine Weyl group on the Maya diagrams / 7.6.: |
Lax Formalism / Chapter 8.: |
Relation with linear ordinary differential equations / 8.1.: |
Symmetric forms of P[subscript II], P[subscript IV] and the Lax representations / 8.2.: |
Appendix |
Profile of Painleve equations / A.0.: |
Hamiltonian systems [Section 1.1] / A.1.: |
Poisson structure and canonical transformations [Section 1.1] / A.2.: |
Riccati equations [Section 1.2] / A.3.: |
Computation of Backlund transformations [Sections 1.5 and 2.3] / A.4.: |
Classical solutions and invariant divisors [Sections 1.6 and 2.2] / A.5.: |
Semidirect product of groups [Section 2.3] / A.6.: |
Cartan matrices and Dynkin diagrams [Section 2.3] / A.7.: |
Demazure operators [Section 2.5] / A.8.: |
Hirota's bilinear operators [Section 3.2] / A.9.: |
Application of the exterior algebra [Sections 6.1 and 6.4] / A.10.: |
Bibliography |
Index |
Preface |
Preface to the English Edition |
What is a Backlund Transformation? / Chapter 1.: |