%0 Journal Article %J Math. Ann. 321 (2001) 157-195 %D 2001 %T Picard and Chazy solutions to the Painlevé VI equation %A Marta Mazzocco %X

I study the solutions of a particular family of Painlevé VI equations with the parameters $\beta=\gamma=0, \delta=1/2$ and $2\alpha=(2\mu-1)^2$, for $2\mu\in\mathbb{Z}$. I show that the case of half-integer $\mu$ is integrable and that the solutions are of two types: the so-called Picard solutions and the so-called Chazy solutions. I give explicit formulae for them and completely determine their asymptotic behaviour near the singular points $0,1,\infty$ and their nonlinear monodromy. I study the structure of analytic continuation of the solutions to the PVI$\mu$ equation for any $\mu$ such that $2\mu\in\mathbb{Z}$. As an application, I classify all the algebraic solutions. For $\mu$ half-integer, I show that they are in one to one correspondence with regular polygons or star-polygons in the plane. For $\mu$ integer, I show that all algebraic solutions belong to a one-parameter family of rational solutions.

%B Math. Ann. 321 (2001) 157-195 %I Springer %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3118 %1 1215 %2 Mathematics %3 Mathematical Physics %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2008-10-15T11:55:14Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n9901054v1.pdf: 307005 bytes, checksum: 82eb79c8f676ce5e5cb35ef63e318302 (MD5) %R 10.1007/PL00004500