Negative flows and non-autonomous reductions of the Volterra lattice

We study reductions of the Volterra lattice corresponding to stationary equations for the additional, noncommutative subalgebra of symmetries. It is shown that, in the case of general position, such a reduction is equivalent to the stationary equation for a sum of the scaling symmetry and the negative flows, and is written as $(m+1)$-component difference equations of the Painlev\'e type generalizing the dP₁ and dP₃₄ equations. For these reductions, we present the isomonodromic Lax pairs and derive the B\"acklund transformations which form the Zᵐ lattice.