Picard-Vessiot Extensions of Real Differential Fields

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zbMATH Open1215.12001arXiv1403.3226MaRDI QIDQ3084532FDOQ3084532

Teresa Crespo, Zbigniew Hajto

Publication date: 25 March 2011

Abstract: For a linear differential equation defined over a formally real differential field K with real closed field of constants k, Crespo, Hajto and van der Put proved that there exists a unique formally real Picard- Vessiot extension up to K-differential automorphism. However such an equation may have Picard-Vessiot extensions which are not formally real fields. The differential Galois group of a Picard-Vessiot extension for this equation has the structure of a linear algebraic group defined over k and is a k-form of the differential Galois group H of the equation over the differential field K(i), where i denotes a square root of -1 in the algebraic closure of k. These facts lead us to consider two issues: determining the number of K-differential isomorphism classes of Picard-Vessiot extensions and describing the variation of the differential Galois group in the set of k-forms of H. We address these two issues in the cases when H is a special linear, a special orthogonal, or a symplectic linear algebraic group and conclude that there is no general behaviour.


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