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Liouvillian Solutions of Difference-Differential Equations

Symbolic Computation 2008-10-10 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

For a field kwithanautomorphismσandaderivationδ,weintroducethenotionofliouvilliansolutionsoflineardifferencedifferentialsystemsσ(Y)=AY,δ(Y)=BYoverkandcharacterizetheexistenceofliouvilliansolutionsintermsoftheGaloisgroupofthesystems.Wewillgiveanalgorithmtodecidewhethersuchasystemhasliouvilliansolutionswhenk=C(x,t),σ(x)=x+1,δ=d/dtwith an automorphism \sigma and a derivation \delta, we introduce the notion of liouvillian solutions of linear difference-differential systems {\sigma(Y) = AY, \delta(Y) = BY} over k and characterize the existence of liouvillian solutions in terms of the Galois group of the systems. We will give an algorithm to decide whether such a system has liouvillian solutions when k = C(x,t), \sigma(x) = x+1, \delta = d/dt and the size of the system is a prime.

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@article{arxiv.0810.1574,
  title  = {Liouvillian Solutions of Difference-Differential Equations},
  author = {Ruyong Feng and Michael F. Singer and Min Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1574},
  year   = {2008}
}

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53 pages

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