Generalized Bonnet surfaces and Lax pairs of ${\mathrm{P}}_{\mathrm{VI}}$

Abstract

We build analytic surfaces in $\mathbb{R}cubec$ represented by the most general sixth Painlevé equation $P_{VI}$ in two steps. Firstly, the moving frame of the surfaces built by Bonnet in 1867 is extrapolated to a new, second order, isomonodromic matrix Lax pair of $P_{VI}$, whose elements depend rationally on the dependent variable and quadratically on the monodromy exponents $\hat{I}{¸}_j$. Secondly, by converting back this Lax pair to a moving frame, we obtain an extrapolation of Bonnet surfaces to surfaces with two more degrees of freedom. Finally, we give a rigorous derivation of the quantum correspondence for $P_{VI}$.

39 pages, no figure, to appear, Journal of mathematical physics