Pointwise ordering conjecture for the maximal and minimal Painlevé I solutions

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Let ymax⁡(x0;x)y_{\max}(x_0;x) and ymin⁡(x0;x)y_{\min}(x_0;x) be the two real solutions with pole at x0≤0x_0\leq0, with xx in the interval of existence of ymin⁡(x0;x)y_{\min}(x_0;x). Ordering conjecture.

ymax⁡(x0;x)<ymin⁡(x0;x).y_{\max}(x_0;x)<y_{\min}(x_0;x).

The inequality was numerically checked for x0∈[−3,0]x_0\in[-3,0] and is conjectured for every x0≤0x_0\leq0; no proof is given.

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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