Fuchsian systems with a reducible monodromy representation (Q2738883)

A Fuchsian system is a linear system of ordinary differential equations with time running on Riemann's sphere and with logarithmic poles NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\frac{df}{dz}=\left( \sum _{i=1}^n\frac{B_i}{z-a_i}\right)f\tag \(*\) NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with \(B_i\in gl(p,{\mathbb C})\). The monodromy representation of the system relative to some fundamental solution with a given base point is called reducible if there exists a proper subspace of \({\mathbb C}^p\) invariant for all monodromy operators; in this case the monodromy operators are simultaneously reducible (i.e. can be made block upper-triangular with the same sizes of the diagonal blocks by simultaneous conjugation); this, however, is not always the case for the matrices \(B_i\). The basic result of the paper reads: If a reducible monodromy representation is realized by a Fuchsian system with given poles \(a_1\), \(\ldots\), \(a_n\), then this monodromy representation can be realized by a reducible Fuchsian system with the same poles (i.e. a system \((*)\) whose matrices \(B_i\) are simultaneously reducible).