%0 Journal Article %T A symmetry reduction technique for higher order Painlev¨¦ systems %A H. Aratyn %A J. F. Gomes %A A. H. Zimerman %J Physics %D 2012 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.physleta.2012.04.044 %X The symmetry reduction of higher order Painlev\'e systems is formulated in terms of Dirac procedure. A set of canonical variables that admit Dirac reduction procedure is proposed for Hamiltonian structures governing the ${A^{(1)}_{2M}}$ and ${A^{(1)}_{2M-1}}$ Painlev\'e systems for $M=2,3,...$. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5098v1