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Generalized Lam\'e equation with finite monodromy

Algebraic Geometry 2016-11-23 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

In this paper, we study the algebraic form of the symmetric generalized Lam\'e equations which have finite projective monodromy groups. In particular, we consider equations with 33 regular singular points on a flat torus TT which takes the form \begin{equation*} \begin{split} \frac{d^2 y}{dz^2}-\left[n_1(n_1+1)(\wp(z+a) +\wp(z-a))\right.\left. +A_1(\zeta(z+a) - \zeta(z-a))+n_0(n_0+1) \wp(z)+B\right]y=0, \end{split} \end{equation*} where n1,n0Rn_1, n_0 \in \Bbb R, A1,BCA_1,B \in \Bbb C, and \wp is the Weierstrass elliptic function. We give a complete list of all the group types that occur as the finite projective monodromy groups on the algebraic form and give the corresponding parameters n0n_0 and n1n_1. For equations with only 11 or 22 regular singular points, we further determine their monodromy group types. The main tool used is the Grothendieck correspondence which gives a bijection between Belyi pairs and dessin d'enfants. By Klein's theorem, we may regard generalized Lam\'e equations with finite monodromy as pullbacks of the hypergeometric equations. In this paper, we will restrict our cases with the assumption that the pullback maps are Belyi functions. Under this setup, our main results consist of a systematic construction on the required dessin. In particular a gluing procedure of dessin will be developed to enable inductive constructions of the dessin.

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@article{arxiv.1611.06643,
  title  = {Generalized Lam\'e equation with finite monodromy},
  author = {You-Cheng Chou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06643},
  year   = {2016}
}

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35 pages

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