Constructive solutions to the Riemann-Hilbert problem and middle convolution (Q2364118)

A Fuchsian system is a linear system of ordinary differential equations on Riemann's sphere with all poles logarithmic (hence with all singular points regular). The only invariant of such a system w.r.t. the group of linear changes of the dependent variables meromorphically depending on time is its monodromy group. The Riemann-Hilbert problem asks whether every monodromy group can be realized by such a system with prescribed poles. In 1989 A.~A.~Bolibruch showed that, in general, the answer to the problem is negative (see [\textit{D. V. Anosov} and \textit{A. A. Bolibruch}, The Riemann-Hilbert problem: A publication from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. Braunschweig: Vieweg (1994; Zbl 0801.34002)]). Yet if the monodromy group is irreducible, the answer is positive. The authors present a general scheme to generate constructive solutions to the Riemann-Hilbert problem via middle convolution (a tool developed by \textit{N. M. Katz} [Rigid local systems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press (1996; Zbl 0864.14013)] in the multiplicative and by \textit{M. Dettweiler} and \textit{S. Reiter} [J. Symb. Comput. 30, No. 6, 761--798 (2000; Zbl 1049.12005)] in the additive setting) and illustrate this approach for a Fuchsian system with four singular points.