Redundant Picard-Fuchs system for abelian integrals (Q5957515)

The authors find an explicit system of Picard-Fuchs differential equations satisfied by abelian integrals of monomial forms and give bounds for its coefficients. These results allow the authors to prove the existence of upper bounds for the number of zeros of abelian integrals on a positive distance from the critical locus. As a consequence they give a partial solution to the tangential Hilbert 16th problem. The second part of the paper is devoted to discuss an equivariant formulation of the problem.