Abstract:
In the paper we consider an universal solution to the KdV equation. This solution also satisfies a fifth order ordinary differential equation. We pose the problem on studying the behavior of this solution as $t\to\infty$. For large time, the asymptotic solution has different structure depending on the slow variable $s=x^2/t$. We construct the asymptotic solution in the domains $s<-3/4$, $-3/4<s<5/24$ and in the vicinity of the point $s=-3/4$. It is shown that a slow modulation of solution's parameters in the vicinity of the point $s=-3/4 $ is described by a solution to Painlevé IV equation.