A topological algorithm for the Fourier transform of Stokes data at infinity (Q6946099)

Stokes data are generalised monodromy data associated to meromorphic connections with irregular singularities. They provide an irregular analogue of the famous Riemann-Hilbert correspondence which gives, on any smooth algebraic variety, an equivalence between connections with regular singularities (the de Rham side) and monodromy data (the Betti side). Its irregular version, known as the Riemann-Hilbert-Birkhoff correspondence, defines an equivalence between possibly irregular connections and generalised monodromy data; the latter can be encoded in several different ways, one of them being the notion of Stokes local system. The authors give a topological description of the behaviour of Stokes matrices under the Fourier transform from infinity to infinity in a large number of cases of one level.\N\NThis explicit, algorithmic statement is obtained by building on a recent result of T. Mochizuki about the Fourier transform of Stokes data of irregular connections on the Riemann sphere and by using the language of Stokes local systems due to P. Boalch. This induces explicit isomorphisms between wild character varieties, in a much larger range of examples than those for which such isomorphisms have previously been written down. The authors conjecture that these isomorphisms are compatible with the quasi-Hamiltonian structure on the wild character varieties.