Nodal curves and Riccati solutions of Painlevé equations

Abstract

In this paper, we study Riccati solutions of Painlevé equations from a view point of geometry of Okamoto-Painlevé pairs $(S,Y)$. After establishing the correspondence between (rational) nodal curves on $S-Y$ and Riccati solutions, we give the complete classification of the configurations of nodal curves on $S-Y$ for each Okamoto-Painlevé pair $(S,Y)$. As an application of the classification, we prove the non-existence of Riccati solutions of Painlevé equations of types $P_I,P_{III}^{{\tilde{D}}_8}$ and $P_{III}^{{\tilde{D}}_7}$. We will also give a partial answer to the conjecture in (STT) and (T) that the dimension of the local cohomology $H_{Y_{red}}^1(S,{\Theta }_S(-\log Y_{red}))$ is one.

arXiv comment30 pages, 4 figures

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