A classification of coverings yielding Heun-to-hypergeometric reductions (Q479192)

The paper under review offers a classification, up to Möbius automorphisms, of coverings which act on the Riemann sphere \(\mathbb{P}^1\) and that yield pullback transformations from hypergeometric to Heun equations, with at least one free parameter. Among the found 61 parametric transformations of maximal degree 12, 28 are compositions of smaller degree transformations between hypergeometric and Heun functions. The 61 transformations are realized by 48 distinct Belyi coverings. A number of 38 of these coverings appear in Herfurtner's list of elliptic surfaces over \(\mathbb{P}^1\) with four singular fibers, as their \(j\)-invariants.