Computing Differential Equations for Integrals Associated to Smooth Fano Polytopes

Abstract: We give an approximate algorithm of computing holonomic systems of linear differential equations for definite integrals with parameters. We show that this algorithm gives a correct answer in finite steps, but we have no general stopping condition. We apply the approximate method to find differential equations for integrals associated to smooth Fano polytopes. They are interested in the study of K3 surfaces and the toric mirror symmetry. In this class of integrals, we can apply Stienstra's rank formula to our algorithm, which gives a stopping condition of the approximate algorithm.