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Quantify additional syzygies arising from interactions between similarity classes

Quantify the number and structure of independent syzygies that arise from interactions between distinct #1(x)-similarity classes of #1(x)-hypergeometric solutions of a linear Mahler operator L(x,M). Specifically, given bases (y_i) within each similarity class and the combined vector (y_1, …, y_s, M y_1, …, M y_s), derive general bounds or explicit formulas for the rank contribution beyond the known 2s−1 syzygies per individual class, thereby characterizing the cross-class interaction terms in the syzygy module over #1[x].

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Background

In the Hermite–Padé approach, the authors paper the module of syzygies of the tuple (z_1, …, z_N, M z_1, …, M z_N) associated with a basis of power series solutions for a linear Mahler equation Ly=0. They show that each #1(x)-similarity class of #1(x)-hypergeometric solutions contributes 2s−1 independent syzygies, where s is the dimension of the class.

However, they observe that when several similarity classes are present, additional syzygies may be created by interactions between the classes. These cross-class interaction syzygies can increase the rank of the overall syzygy module beyond the sum of the within-class contributions, but the authors do not currently have a general quantitative description of this phenomenon.

References

However, other syzygies may be produced by the interaction between several similarity classes. We cannot quantify the phenomenon, and merely give an example.

First-order factors of linear Mahler operators (2403.11545 - Chyzak et al., 18 Mar 2024) in Section 6.6 (A supplementary remark on the rank of syzygy module)