Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 3 32C b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
The transformationsform a one-parameter group with infinitesimal generatorUnder this scaling, has weight and has weight , so has weight zero, as does . Thus is invariant and is a Scaling symmetry of the sine-Gordon equation.
The productis invariant under the group. A group-invariant solution therefore has the form . Sincethe Sine-Gordon equation reduces to
Now put . ThenSubstitution and multiplication by giveHenceThis is the Painlevé III equation with parameters .