Approximate symmetry conjecture for real Painlevé I solutions

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Let y0∈Ry_0\in\mathbb R and yl≤y0y_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.

References

Primary source

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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