Spectrum of a linear differential equation over a field of formal power series

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Abstract: In this paper we associate to a linear differential equation with coefficients in the field of Laurent formal power series a new geometric object, a spectrum in the sense of Berkovich. We will compute this spectrum and show that it contains interesting informations about the equation.


The article under review investigates the theory of linear differential equations over a field of formal power series \(k(\!(T)\!)\). The objects under study are differential modules \((M,\nabla)\) over the differential field \((k(\!(T)\!), T \frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}T})\), where \(k\) is an algebraically closed field. The differential operator \(\nabla \colon M \to M\) may be seen as a bounded operator on the \(k\)-Banach space, hence one may consider its spectrum \(\Sigma_{\nabla}\) in the sense of \textit{V. G. Berkovich} [Spectral theory and analytic geometry over non-Archimedean fields. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (1990; Zbl 0715.14013)]. Recall that it is a non-empty compact subset of the Berkovich affine line \(\mathbb{A}^{1,\mathrm{an}}_{k}\) over \(k\) (endowed with the trivial valuation). The author started investigated such spectra, in a more general setting, in her previous paper [Math. Z. 296, No. 3--4, 1613--1644 (2020; Zbl 1472.12006)]. Here, in the case of \(k(\!(T)\!)\), she manages to obtain a complete description of \(\Sigma_{\nabla}\), building on the known structure results for differential modules over fields of formal power series. Recall that one classically associate slopes \(\gamma_{1},\dotsc,\gamma_{\nu}\) to the differential module \(M\), by considering the slopes of the Newton polygon of a polynomial corresponding to \(\nabla\) in a cyclic basis. Moreover, the differential module \(M\) has a so-called regular singular part \(M_{\textrm{reg}}\). The latter may be defined by a matrix \(G\) with coefficients in \(k\). Denote by \(a_{1},\dotsc,a_{\mu}\) its eigenvalues. The main theorem of the paper states that those invariants are enough to describe completely the spectrum of \(M\): we have \[ \Sigma_{\nabla} = \{ x_{0,r^{-\gamma_{1}}}, \dotsc, x_{0,r^{-\gamma_{\nu}}} \} \cup \bigcup_{i=1}^{\mu} (a_{i} + \mathbb{Z}). \] Here \(r\in (0,1)\) is an irrelevant parameter used to endow \((k(\!(T)\!)\) with a structure of \(k\)-Banach space (imposing \(\lvert T\rvert =r\)). The point \(x_{0,r^{-\gamma_{i}}}\) in \(\mathbb{A}^{1,\mathrm{an}}_{k}\) is the unique point at the boundary of the disk with center 0 and radius \(r^{-\gamma_{i}}\).











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