Discrete mathematical modelling seminar

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Organizer(s) Tetsuji Tokihiro, Ralph Willox

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2025/06/11

17:00-18:00   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Andy Hone (University of Kent)
Quantum minimal surfaces and discrete Painlevé equations (English)
[ Abstract ]
We consider the quantum version of the Poisson bracket equations for a Riemann surface immersed as a minimal surface in 4D Euclidean space. For the case of the quantum parabola, we show that the equation for normalisation of states corresponds to a discrete Painlevé I equation (dP1). The condition that the norms should be positive yields a unique positive solution of the dP1, and by constructing the space of initial conditions we find that it corresponds to a sequence of classical solutions of Painlevé V, which we present explicitly in terms of ratios of modified Bessel functions and their Wronskians.