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Resurgent Stokes data for Painlevé equations and two-dimensional quantum (super) gravity. (English) Zbl 07683788

Summary: Resurgent-transseries solutions to Painlevé equations may be recursively constructed out of these nonlinear differential-equations – but require Stokes data to be globally defined over the complex plane. Stokes data explicitly construct connection-formulae which describe the nonlinear Stokes phenomena associated to these solutions, via implementation of Stokes transitions acting on the transseries. Nonlinear resurgent Stokes data lack, however, a first-principle computational approach, hence are hard to determine generically. In the Painlevé I and Painlevé II contexts, nonlinear Stokes data get further hindered as these equations are resonant, with non-trivial consequences for the interconnections between transseries sectors, bridge equations, and associated Stokes coefficients. In parallel to this, the Painlevé I and Painlevé II equations are string-equations for two-dimensional quantum (super) gravity and minimal string theories, where Stokes data have natural ZZ-brane interpretations. This work conjectures for the first time the complete, analytical, resurgent Stokes data for the first two Painlevé equations, alongside their quantum gravity or minimal string incarnations. The method developed herein, dubbed “closed-form asymptotics”, makes sole use of resurgent large-order asymptotics of transseries solutions – alongside a careful analysis of the role resonance plays. Given its generality, it may be applicable to other distinct (nonlinear, resonant) problems. Results for analytical Stokes coefficients have natural structures, which are described, and extensive high-precision numerical tests corroborate all analytical predictions. Connection-formulae are explicitly constructed, with rather simple and compact final results encoding the full Stokes data, and further allowing for exact monodromy checks – hence for an analytical proof of our Painlevé I results.

MSC:

34M40 Stokes phenomena and connection problems (linear and nonlinear) for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain
34M55 Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies
34M15 Algebraic aspects (differential-algebraic, hypertranscendence, group-theoretical) of ordinary differential equations in the complex domain
34M30 Asymptotics and summation methods for ordinary differential equations in the complex domain
81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
83E30 String and superstring theories in gravitational theory
83E50 Supergravity