On the exponential type conjecture

We prove that the small quantum t-connection on a closed monotone symplectic manifold is of exponential type and has quasi-unipotent regularized monodromies at t=0. This answers a conjecture of Katzarkov-Kontsevich-Pantev and Galkin-Golyshev-Iritani for those classes of symplectic manifolds. The proof follows a reduction to positive characteristics argument, and the main tools of the proof are Katz's local monodromy theorem in differential equations and quantum Steenrod operations in equivariant Gromov-Witten theory with mod p coefficients.