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On Christol's conjecture

Number Theory 2020-06-24 v2 Mathematical Physics Classical Analysis and ODEs math.MP

Abstract

We show that the unresolved examples of Christol's conjecture 3F2([2/9,5/9,8/9],[2/3,1],x) \, _3F_{2}\left([2/9,5/9,8/9],[2/3,1],x\right) and 3F2([1/9,4/9,7/9],[1/3,1],x)_3F_{2}\left([1/9,4/9,7/9],[1/3,1],x\right), are indeed diagonals of rational functions. We also show that other 3F2\, _3F_2 and 4F3\, _4F_3 unresolved examples of Christol's conjecture are diagonals of rational functions. Finally we give two arguments that show that it is likely that the 3F2([1/9,4/9,5/9],[1/3,1],27x)\, _3F_2([1/9, 4/9, 5/9], \, [1/3,1], \, 27 \cdot x) function is a diagonal of a rational function.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.10259,
  title  = {On Christol's conjecture},
  author = {Y. Abdelaziz and C. Koutschan and J-M. Maillard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10259},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages

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