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Raimundas Vidunas

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arXiv2014

Degenerate and dihedral Heun functions with parameters

Just as with the Gauss hypergeometric function, particular cases of the local Heun function can be Liouvillian (that is, "elementary") functions. One way to obtain these functions is by pull-back transformations of Gauss hypergeometric equations with Liouvillian solutions. This paper presents the Liouvillian solutions of Heun's equations that are pull-backs of the parametric hypergeometric equations with cyclic or dihedral monodromy groups.

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arXiv2013

Algorithms and differential relations for Belyi functions

A tool package for computing genus 0 Belyi functions is presented, including simplification routines, computation of moduli fields, decompositions, dessins d'enfant. The main algorithm for computing the Belyi functions themselves is based on implied transformations of the hypergeometric differential equation to Fuchsian equations, preferably with few singular points. This gives interesting differential relations between polynomial components of a Belyi function.

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arXiv2012

Darboux evaluations of algebraic Gauss hypergeometric functions

This paper presents explicit expressions for algebraic Gauss hypergeometric functions. We consider solutions of hypergeometric equations with the tetrahedral, octahedral and icosahedral monodromy groups. Conceptually, we pull-back such a hypergeometric equation onto its Darboux curve so that the pull-backed equation has a cyclic monodromy group. Minimal degree of the pull-back coverings is 4, 6 or 12 (for the three monodromy groups, respectively). In explicit terms, we replace the independent variable by a rational function of degree 4, 6 or 12, and transform hypergeometric functions to radical functions.

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arXiv2012

Parametric transformations between the Heun and Gauss hypergeometric functions

The hypergeometric and Heun functions are classical special functions. Transformation formulas between them are commonly induced by pull-back transformations of their differential equations, with respect to some coverings P1-to-P1. This gives expressions of Heun functions in terms of better understood hypergeometric functions. This article presents the list of hypergeometric-to-Heun pull-back transformations with a free continuous parameter, and illustrates most of them by a Heun-to-hypergeometric reduction formula. In total, 61 parametric transformations exist, of maximal degree 12.

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arXiv2012

A classification of coverings yielding Heun-to-hypergeometric reductions

Pull-back transformations between Heun and Gauss hypergeometric equations give useful expressions of Heun functions in terms of better understood hypergeometric functions. This article classifies, up to Mobius automorphisms, the coverings P1-to-P1 that yield pull-back transformations from hypergeometric to Heun equations with at least one free parameter (excluding the cases when the involved hypergeometric equation has cyclic or dihedral monodromy). In all, 61 parametric hypergeometric-to-Heun transformations are found, of maximal degree 12. Among them, 28 pull-backs are compositions of smaller degree transformations between hypergeometric and Heun functions. The 61 transformations are realized by 48 different Belyi coverings (though 2 coverings should be counted twice as their moduli field is quadratic). The same Belyi coverings appear in several other contexts. For example, 38 of the coverings appear in Herfutner's list of elliptic surfaces over P1 with four singular fibers, as their j-invariants. In passing, we demonstrate an elegant way to show that there are no coverings P1-to-P1 with some branching patterns.

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arXiv2011

Cubic and quartic transformations of the sixth Painleve equation in terms of Riemann-Hilbert correspondence

A starting point of this paper is a classification of quadratic polynomial transformations of the monodromy manifold for the 2x2 isomonodromic Fuchsian systems associated to the Painleve VI equation. Up to birational automorphisms of the monodromy manifold, we find three transformations. Two of them are identified as the action of known quadratic or quartic transformations of the Painleve VI equation. The third transformation of the monodromy manifold gives a new transformation of degree 3 of Picard's solutions of Painleve VI.

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arXiv2011

Algebraic transformations of Gauss hypergeometric functions

This article gives a classification scheme of algebraic transformations of Gauss hypergeometric functions, or pull-back transformations between hypergeometric differential equations. The classification recovers the classical transformations of degree 2, 3, 4, 6, and finds other transformations of some special classes of the Gauss hypergeometric function. The other transformations are considered more thoroughly in a series of supplementing articles.

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arXiv2011

Dihedral Gauss hypergeometric functions

Gauss hypergeometric functions with a dihedral monodromy group can be expressed as elementary functions, since their hypergeometric equations can be transformed to Fuchsian equations with cyclic monodromy groups by a quadratic change of the argument variable. The paper presents general elementary expressions of these dihedral hypergeometric functions, involving finite bivariate sums expressible as terminating Appell's F2 or F3 series. Additionally, trigonometric expressions for the dihedral functions are presented, and degenerate cases (logarithmic, or with the monodromy group Z/2Z) are considered.

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arXiv2011

Transformations and invariants for dihedral Gauss hypergeometric functions

Hypergeometric equations with a dihedral monodromy group can be solved in terms of elementary functions. This paper gives explicit general expressions for quadratic monodromy invariants for these hypergeometric equations, using a generalization of Clausen's formula and terminating double hypergeometric sums. Besides, pull-back transformations for the dihedral hypergeometric equations are presented, including Klein's pullback transformations for the equations with a finite (dihedral) monodromy group.

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arXiv2009

Identities between Appell's and hypergeometric functions

Univariate specializations of Appell's hypergeometric functions F1, F2, F3, F4 satisfy ordinary Fuchsian equations of order at most 4. In special cases, these differential equations are of order 2, and could be simple (pullback) transformations of Euler's differential equation for the Gauss hypergeometric function. The paper classifies these cases, and presents corresponding relations between univariate specializations of Appell's functions and univariate hypergeometric functions. The computational aspect and interesting identities are discussed.

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arXiv2009

On singular univariate specializations of bivariate hypergeometric functions

It is tempting to evaluate F2(x,1) and similar univariate specializations of Appell's functions by evaluating the apparent power series at x=0 straight away using the Gauss formula for 2F1(1). But this kind of naive evaluation can lead to errors as the 2F1(1) coefficients might eventually diverge; then the actual power series at x=0 might involve branching terms. This paper demonstrates these complications on concrete examples.

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arXiv2009

A generalization of Clausen's identity

The paper aims to generalize Clausen's identity to the square of any Gauss hypergeometric function. Accordingly, solutions of the related 3rd order linear differential equation are found in terms of certain bivariate series that can reduce to 3F2 series similar to those in Clausen's identity. The general contiguous variation of Clausen's identity is found. The related Chaundy's identity is generalized without any restriction on the parameters of Gauss hypergeometric function. The special case of dihedral Gauss hypergeometric functions is underscored.

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arXiv2008

Transformations of hypergeometric elliptic integrals

The paper classifies algebraic transformations of Gauss hypergeometric functions with the local exponent differences $(1/2,1/4,1/4)$, $(1/2,1/3,1/6)$ and $(1/3,1/3,1/3)$. These form a special class of algebraic transformations of Gauss hypergeometric functions, of arbitrary high degree. The Gauss hypergeometric functions can be identified as elliptic integrals on the genus 1 curves $y=x^3-x$ or $y=x^3-1$. Especially interesting are algebraic transformations of the hypergeometric functions into themselves; these transformations come from isogenies of the respective elliptic curves.

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arXiv2008

Computation of RS-pullback transformations for algebraic Painleve VI solutions

Algebraic solutions of the sixth Painleve equation can be computed using pullback transformations of hypergeometric equations with respect to specially ramified rational coverings. In particular, as was noticed by the second author and Doran, some algebraic solutions can be constructed from a rational covering alone, without computation of the pullbacked Fuchsian equation. But the same covering can be used to pullback different hypergeometric equations, resulting in different algebraic Painleve VI solutions. This paper presents computations of explicit RS-pullback transformations, and derivation of algebraic Painleve VI solutions from them.

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arXiv2008

Schlesinger transformations for algebraic Painleve VI solutions

Various Schlesinger transformations can be combined with a direct pull-back of a hypergeometric 2x2 system to obtain $RS^2_4$-pullback transformations to isomonodromic 2x2 Fuchsian systems with 4 singularities. The corresponding Painleve VI solutions are algebraic functions, possibly in different orbits under Okamoto transformations. This paper demonstrates a direct computation of Schlesinger transformations acting on several apparent singular points, and presents an algebraic procedure (via syzygies) of computing algebraic Painleve VI solutions without deriving full RS-pullback transformations.

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arXiv2008

Transformations of algebraic Gauss hypergeometric functions

A celebrated theorem of Klein implies that any hypergeometric differential equation with algebraic solutions is a pull-back of one of the few standard hypergeometric equations with algebraic solutions. The most interesting cases are hypergeometric equations with tetrahedral, octahedral or icosahedral monodromy groups. We give an algorithm for computing Klein's pull-back coverings in these cases, based on certain explicit expressions (Darboux evaluations) of algebraic hypergeometric functions. The explicit expressions can be computed using contiguous relations and a data base of simplest Darboux evaluations (covering the Schwarz table). Klein's pull-back transformations also induce algebraic transformations between hypergeometric solutions and a standard hypergeometric function with the same finite monodromy group.

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arXiv2007

Computation of highly ramified coverings

An almost Belyi covering is an algebraic covering of the projective line, such that all ramified points except one simple ramified point lie above a set of 3 points of the projective line. In general, there are 1-dimensional families of these coverings with a fixed ramification pattern. (That is, Hurwitz spaces for these coverings are curves.) In this paper, three almost Belyi coverings of degrees 11, 12, and 20 are explicitly constructed. We demonstrate how these coverings can be used for computation of several algebraic solutions of the sixth Painleve equation.

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arXiv2006

Askey-Wilson relations and Leonard pairs

It is known that if $(A,B)$ is a Leonard pair, then the linear transformations $A$, $B$ satisfy the Askey-Wilson relations A^2 B - b A B A + B A^2 - g (A B+B A) - r B = h A^2 + w A + e I, B^2 A - b B A B + A B^2 - h (A B+B A) - s A = g B^2 + w B + f I, for some scalars $b,g,h,r,s,w,e,f$. The problem of this paper is the following: given a pair of Askey-Wilson relations as above, how many Leonard pairs are there that satisfy those relations? It turns out that the answer is 5 in general. We give the generic number of Leonard pairs for each Askey-Wilson type of Askey-Wilson relations.

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