From Heun to Painlev\'e on Sasaki-Einstein Spaces and Their Confluent Limits

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of isomonodromic deformations of the evolution of scalar fields in Sasaki-Einstein spaces in the context of holography. Here we analyze the monodromy data of the general Heun equation, resulting from a scalar on Y$^{p,q}$, thus obtaining the corresponding Painlev\'e VI equation. Furthermore we have considered limits leading to a coalescence of singularities, which in turn transform the original Painlev\'e VI equation, to one of lower rank. The confluent limits we have considered are Y$^{p,p}$, T$^{1,1} / \mathbb{Z}_2$ and Y$^{\infty, q}$.