Comparison conjecture for the extremal locations XX and Xmin⁡X_{\min}

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Let x1<x2<0x_1<x_2<0, and let X(x)X(x) and Xmin⁡(x)X_{\min}(x) denote the corresponding extremal location functions for real solutions of the first Painlevé equation. Comparison conjecture.

0<X(x2)−X(x1)<Xmin⁡(x2)−Xmin⁡(x1).0<X(x_2)-X(x_1)<X_{\min}(x_2)-X_{\min}(x_1).

The source presents this as an open question motivated by numerical behaviour and explicitly asks whether it can be proved or disproved.

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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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