With the exception of
, a Bäcklund transformation relates a Painlevé transcendent of one type
either to another of the same type but with different values of
the parameters, or to another type.
Let
be a solution of
. Then the transformations
and
furnish solutions of
, provided that
.
also has the special transformation
or equivalently,
with
and
, where
satisfies
with
,
, and
satisfies
with
.
Let
,
, be solutions
of
with
Then
Next, let
,
, be solutions of
with
Then
See Milne et al. (1997).
If
and
, then set
and
, without loss of generality. Let
,
, be solutions of
with
Then
Similar results hold for
with
and
.
Furthermore,
Let
and
,
, be solutions of
with
Then
valid when the denominators are nonzero, and where the upper signs or the lower signs are taken throughout each transformation. See Bassom et al. (1995).
Let
,
, be
solutions of
with
Then
Let
and
be solutions of
, where
and
,
, independently. Also let
and assume
. Then
provided that the numerator on the right-hand side does not vanish. Again,
since
,
, independently, there are eight
distinct transformations of type
.
Let
be a solution of
and
with
. Then
satisfies
with
Let
,
, be
solutions of
with
Then
The transformations
, for
, generate a group of order
24. See Iwasaki et al. (1991, p. 127).
Let
and
be solutions of
with
and
for
, where
Then
also has quadratic and quartic transformations. Let
be a solution of
. The quadratic
transformation
transforms
with
and
to
with
. The
quartic transformation
transforms
with
to
with
. Also,
transforms
with
and
to
with
and
.