Signatures of branched coverings and solvability in quadratures

zbMATH Open1312.34133arXiv1207.1211MaRDI QIDQ2876641FDOQ2876641

Yuri Burda, A. G. Khovanskii

Publication date: 19 August 2014

Published in: Moscow Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we deal with branched coverings over the complement to finitely many exceptional points on the Riemann sphere having the property that the local monodromy around each of the branching points is of finite order. To such a covering we assign its extit{signature}, i.e. the set of its exceptional and branching points together with the orders of local monodromy operators around the branching points. What can be said about the monodromy group of a branched covering if its signature is known? It seems at first that the answer is nothing or next to nothing. Indeed, generically it is so. However there is a (small) list of signatures of extit{elliptic} and extit{parabolic} types, for which the monodromy group can be described completely, or at least determined up to an abelian factor. This appendix is devoted to investigation of these signatures. For all these signatures (with one exception) the corresponding monodromy groups turn out to be solvable. Linear differential equations of Fuchs type related to these signatures are solvable in quadratures (in the case of elliptic signatures --- in algebraic functions). A well-known example of this type is provided by Euler differential equations, which can be reduced to linear differential equations with constant coefficients. The algebraic functions related to all (but one) of these signatures are expressible in radicals. A simple example of this kind is provided by the possibility to express the inverse of a Chebyshev polynomial in radicals. Another example of this kind is provided by functions related to division theorems for the argument of elliptic functions. Such functions play a central role in the work [1] of Ritt.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1211

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zbMATH Keywords

branching datasolvability in quadraturesFuchs-type differential equationssignatures of coverings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Singularities, monodromy and local behavior of solutions to ordinary differential equations in the complex domain, normal forms (34M35) Algebraic aspects (differential-algebraic, hypertranscendence, group-theoretical) of ordinary differential equations in the complex domain (34M15)

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• Signatures of Topological Branched Covers
• On branched coverings of quadrics

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