An interpolation problem related to the elliptic Painleve equation is formulated and solved. A simple form of the elliptic Painleve equation and the Lax pair are obtained. Explicit determinant formulae of special solutions are also given.
We give an explicit differential equation which is expected to determine the instanton partition function in the presence of the full surface operator in N=2 SU(N) gauge theory. The differential equation arises as a quantization of a certain Hamiltonian system of isomonodromy type discovered by Fuji, Suzuki and Tsuda.
An explicit form of the Lax pair for the q-difference Painleve equation with affine Weyl group symmetry of type E^{(1)}_8 is obtained. Its degeneration to E^{(1)}_7, E^{(1)}_6 and D^{(1)}_5 cases are also given.
A Lax formalism for the elliptic Painleve equation is presented. The construction is based on the geometry of the curves on ${mathbb P}^1times{mathbb P}^1$ and described in terms of the point configurations.
