A fully noncommutative Painlevé II hierarchy: Lax pair and solutions related to Fredholm determinants

Abstract

We consider Fredholm determinants of matrix convolution operators associated to matrix versions of the $n-$th Airy functions. Using the theory of integrable operators, we relate them to a fully noncommutative Painlevé II hierarchy, defined through a matrix valued version of the Lenard operators. In particular, the Riemann-Hilbert technique used to study these integrable operators allows to find a Lax pair for each member of the hierarchy. Finally, the coefficients of the Lax matrices are explicitely written in terms of these matrix valued Lenard operators and some solution of the hierarchy are written in terms of Fredholm determinants of the square of the matrix Airy convolution operators.

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