On the relation between global properties of linear difference and differential equations with polynomial coefficients. I (Q1336344)

This paper is concerned with applications of the Mellin transformation in the study of homogeneous linear differential and difference equations with polynomial coefficients. If a differential equation (D) with regular singularities at 0 and \(\infty\) and arbitrary singularities in the rest of the complex plane is transformed by a variant of the formal Mellin transformation into a difference equation \((\Delta)\) then there are the relations between fundamental systems of solutions of (D) and \((\Delta)\). These relations and the relations between special cases of differential and difference equations and the other interesting problems are investigated.