Galois groups for integrable and projectively integrable linear difference equations
Commutative Algebra
2017-03-28 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs
Representation Theory
Abstract
We consider first-order linear difference systems over , with respect to a difference operator that is either a shift , -dilation with not a root of unity, or Mahler operator with . Such a system is integrable if its solutions also satisfy a linear differential system; it is projectively integrable if it becomes integrable "after moding out by scalars." We apply recent results of Sch\"{a}fke and Singer to characterize which groups can occur as Galois groups of integrable or projectively integrable linear difference systems. In particular, such groups must be solvable. Finally, we give hypertranscendence criteria.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.00015,
title = {Galois groups for integrable and projectively integrable linear difference equations},
author = {Carlos E. Arreche and Michael F. Singer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00015},
year = {2017}
}