CONTINUOUS SYMMETRIES OF DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENCE-EQUATIONS - THE KAC-VANMOERBEKE EQUATION AND PAINLEVE REDUCTION

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QUISPEL, GRW [1 ]
CAPEL, HW [1 ]
SAHADEVAN, R [1 ]
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[1] UNIV AMSTERDAM, INST THEORET FYS, 1018 XE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
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10.1016/0375-9601(92)90891-O
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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A method is given to derive the point symmetries of partial differential-difference equations. Applying the method to the Kac-van Moerbeke equation we find its symmetries form a Kac-Moody-Virasoro algebra. Using the symmetries, a similarity reduction of the Kac-van Moerbeke equation to an ordinary differential-difference equation is obtained. This reduced equation possesses a Lax pair, reduces to the first Painleve equation in the continuum limit, and satisfies a recently proposed discrete version of the Painleve property.
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