We show that the n-fold integrals χ(n) of the magnetic susceptibility
of the Ising model, as well as various other n-fold integrals of the "Ising
class", or n-fold integrals from enumerative combinatorics, like lattice Green
functions, correspond to a distinguished class of function generalising
algebraic functions: they are actually diagonals of rational functions. As a
consequence, the power series expansions of the, analytic at x=0, solutions of
these linear differential equations "Derived From Geometry" are globally
bounded, which means that, after just one rescaling of the expansion variable,
they can be cast into series expansions with integer coefficients. We also give
several results showing that the unique analytical solution of Calabi-Yau ODEs,
and, more generally, Picard-Fuchs linear ODEs, with solutions of maximal
weights, are always diagonal of rational functions. Besides, in a more
enumerative combinatorics context, generating functions whose coefficients are
expressed in terms of nested sums of products of binomial terms can also be
shown to be diagonals of rational functions. We finally address the question of
the relations between the notion of integrality (series with integer
coefficients, or, more generally, globally bounded series) and the modularity
of ODEs.Comment: This paper is the short version of the larger (100 pages) version,
available as arXiv:1211.6031 , where all the detailed proofs are given and
where a much larger set of examples is displaye
