Lattice Green's Functions of the Higher-Dimensional Face-Centered Cubic Lattices

We study the face-centered cubic lattice (fcc) in up to six dimensions. In particular, we are concerned with lattice Green's functions (LGF) and return probabilities. Computer algebra techniques, such as the method of creative telescoping, are used for deriving an ODE for a given LGF. For the four- and five-dimensional fcc lattices, we give rigorous proofs of the ODEs that were conjectured by Guttmann and Broadhurst. Additionally, we find the ODE of the LGF of the six-dimensional fcc lattice, a result that was not believed to be achievable with current computer hardware.Comment: 16 pages, final versio

Diagonals of rational functions, pullbacked 2F1 hypergeometric functions and modular forms (unabrigded version)

We recall that diagonals of rational functions naturally occur in lattice statistical mechanics and enumerative combinatorics. We find that a seven-parameter rational function of three variables with a numerator equal to one (reciprocal of a polynomial of degree two at most) can be expressed as a pullbacked 2F1 hypergeometric function. This result can be seen as the simplest non-trivial family of diagonals of rational functions. We focus on some subcases such that the diagonals of the corresponding rational functions can be written as a pullbacked 2F1 hypergeometric function with two possible rational functions pullbacks algebraically related by modular equations, thus showing explicitely that the diagonal is a modular form. We then generalise this result to eight, nine and ten parameters families adding some selected cubic terms at the denominator of the rational function defining the diagonal. We finally show that each of these previous rational functions yields an infinite number of rational functions whose diagonals are also pullbacked 2F1 hypergeometric functions and modular forms.Comment: 39 page

On Christol's conjecture

We show that the unresolved examples of Christol's conjecture \, _3F_{2}\left([2/9,5/9,8/9],[2/3,1],x\right) and $_3F_{2}\left([1/9,4/9,7/9],[1/3,1],x\right)$, are indeed diagonals of rational functions. We also show that other \, _3F_2 and \, _4F_3 unresolved examples of Christol's conjecture are diagonals of rational functions. Finally we give two arguments that show that it is likely that the \, _3F_2([1/9, 4/9, 5/9], \, [1/3,1], \, 27 \cdot x) function is a diagonal of a rational function.Comment: 13 page

Heun functions and diagonals of rational functions (unabridged version)

International audienceWe provide a set of diagonals of simple rational functions of four variables that are seen to be squares of Heun functions. Each time, these Heun functions, obtained by creative telescoping, turn out to be pullbacked 2 F 1 hypergeometric functions and in fact classical modular forms. We even obtained Heun functions that are automorphic forms associated with Shimura curves as solutions of telescopers of rational functions

Diagonals of rational functions, pullbacked 2 F 1 hypergeometric functions and modular forms (unabrigded version)

International audienceWe recall that diagonals of rational functions naturally occur in lattice statistical mechanics and enumerative combinatorics. We find that a seven-parameter rational function of three variables with a numerator equal to one (reciprocal of a polynomial of degree two at most) can be expressed as a pullbacked 2 F 1 hypergeometric function. This result can be seen as the simplest non-trivial family of diagonals of rational functions. We focus on some subcases such that the diagonals of the corresponding rational functions can be written as a pullbacked 2 F 1 hypergeometric function with two possible rational functions pullbacks algebraically related by modular equations, thus showing explicitely that the diagonal is a modular form. We then generalise this result to eight, nine and ten parameters families adding some selected cubic terms at the denominator of the rational function defining the diagonal. We finally show that each of these previous rational functions yields an infinite number of rational functions whose diagonals are also pullbacked 2 F 1 hypergeometric functions and modular forms

Echelons of power series and Gabrielov's counterexample to nested linear Artin Approximation

Gabrielov's famous example for the failure of analytic Artin approximation in the presence of nested subring conditions is shown to be due to a growth phenomenon in standard basis computations for echelons, a generalization of the concept of ideals in power series rings.Comment: To appear in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Societ

Computer-Assisted Proofs of Some Identities for Bessel Functions of Fractional Order

We employ computer algebra algorithms to prove a collection of identities involving Bessel functions with half-integer orders and other special functions. These identities appear in the famous Handbook of Mathematical Functions, as well as in its successor, the DLMF, but their proofs were lost. We use generating functions and symbolic summation techniques to produce new proofs for them.Comment: Final version, some typos were corrected. 21 pages, uses svmult.cl