Painlevé analysis and integrability aspects of some nonlinear partial differential equations

Abstract

A brief review of the Painlevé singularity structure analysis of some autonomous and nonautonomous nonlinear partial differential equations is discussed. We point out how the Painlevé analysis of solutions of these equations systematically provides the integrability properties of the equation. The Lax pair, Bäcklund transformation and bilinear forms are constructed from the analysis.