Weiss, John; Tabor, M.; Carnevale, George The Painlevé property for partial differential equations. (English) Zbl 0514.35083 J. Math. Phys. 24, 522-526 (1983). Summary: In this paper we define the Painlevé property for partial differential equations and show how it determines, in a remarkably simple manner, the integrability, the Bäcklund transforms, the linearizing transforms, and the Lax pairs of three well-known partial differential equations (Burgers’ equation, KdV equation, and the modified KdV equation). This indicates that the Painlevé property may provide a unified description of integrable behavior in dynamical systems (ordinary and partial differential equations), while, at the same time, providing an efficient method for determining the integrability of particular systems. Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 17 ReviewsCited in 596 Documents MSC: 35Q53 KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) 35A30 Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs 37K10 Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) 37K35 Lie-Bäcklund and other transformations for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems Keywords:Painlevé property; integrability; Bäcklund transforms; Lax pairs; Burgers’ equation; KdV equation PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. Weiss} et al., J. Math. Phys. 24, 522--526 (1983; Zbl 0514.35083) Full Text: DOI References: [1] DOI: 10.1007/BF02413316 · JFM 22.0921.02 · doi:10.1007/BF02413316 [2] DOI: 10.1063/1.525389 · Zbl 0492.70019 · doi:10.1063/1.525389 [3] DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.25.1257 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.25.1257 [4] DOI: 10.1063/1.524491 · Zbl 0445.35056 · doi:10.1063/1.524491 [5] DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3160210503 · Zbl 0162.41103 · doi:10.1002/cpa.3160210503 [6] Dryuma V. S., Pis’ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 19 pp 753– (1974) [7] Dryuma V. S., JETP Lett. 19 pp 387– (1974) This reference list is based on information provided by the publisher or from digital mathematics libraries. Its items are heuristically matched to zbMATH identifiers and may contain data conversion errors. In some cases that data have been complemented/enhanced by data from zbMATH Open. This attempts to reflect the references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible without claiming completeness or a perfect matching.