Approximate symmetry conjecture for real Painlevé I solutions

Let y0Ry_0\in\mathbb R and yly0y_l\leq y_0 define a first solution of the first Painlevé equation, and let the second solution be defined by the data yl-y_l and y0-y_0. Let Δ\Delta be the difference between their initial slopes. Approximate symmetry conjecture. The integer part of this difference is zero:

[Δ]=0.[\Delta]=0.

The claim is based on numerical values of the slope-difference function and expresses an approximate symmetry under simultaneous sign reversal of the initial and minimum values; it remains unproved in the source.

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N. Joshi and A. V. Kitaev, “The Dirichlet Boundary Value Problem for Real Solutions of the first Painlevé Equation on Segments on Non-Positive Semi-Axis”, arXiv:math/0407432 (2004).

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