Singularity Confinement and Proliferation of Tau Functions for a General Differential-Difference Sawada-Kotera Equation

Abstract By blending Painlevé property with singularity confinement for a general arbitrary order Sawada-Kotera differential-difference equation, we find a proliferation of “tau-functions” (coming from confined patterns). However, only one of these function enters into the Hirota bilinear form (the others give multi-linear expressions) but it has specific relations with all others. We also discuss two modifications of the Sawada-Kotera equation. Fully discretizations and the express method for computing algebraic entropy are discussed.