Unconditional proof of minimal annihilator status

Prove unconditionally, using creative telescoping, that the irreducible third-order Picard–Fuchs operator M is the minimal annihilator of the hyperkagome lattice Green's function.

Background

The paper reconstructs the third-order operator M from exact lattice moments and verifies that it annihilates the relevant series to high order, following the guess-and-verify standard used in lattice-statistics research. However, the authors distinguish this certification from a formal derivation directly from the rational Brillouin-zone integrand.

An unconditional creative-telescoping derivation would establish the operator and its minimality without relying on moment guessing and finite series verification. The paper identifies this as its remaining open technical step.

References

Every structural statement above is a rigorous consequence of $M$ together with Theorems~\ref{thm:modular}, \ref{thm:y0}, \ref{thm:noalg} and \ref{thm:phi}; that $M$ is the minimal annihilator of the Green's function is established to the guess-and-verify standard of the lattice-statistics literature, and an unconditional creative-telescoping proof of minimality remains the one open step.

The remaining task is to specialize such an evaluation to the curve above, or to integrate $D_+$ termwise---it is quadratic in each $\cos\theta_i$, so one angular integration yields an inverse square root and the next an elliptic integral, leaving a one-dimensional algebraic period that the orthogonal structure forces into the $\mathrm{Sym}2(V_2)$ form. We record the reduction here; matching such a classical evaluation, term by term, against the modular parametrization of Section~\ref{sec:modular} and the closed form eq:y0closed is left to future work.

Lattice Green's function of the hyperkagome lattice: modular uniformization at level 30 from an orthogonal differential Galois group  (2608.28141 - Nasr et al., 28 Aug 2026) in Section 6, Section~\ref{sec:watson}, final paragraph