Gérard-Levelt membranes

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2012-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/1201.2441v1

Mathematics

Classical Analysis and ODEs

13 p

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We present an unexpected application of tropical convexity to the determination of invariants for linear systems of differential equations. We show that the classical G\'erard-Levelt lattice saturation procedure can be geometrically understood in terms of a projection on the tropical linear space attached to a subset of the local affine Bruhat-Tits building, that we call the G\'erard-Levelt membrane. This provides a way to compute the true Poincar\'e rank, but also the Katz rank of a meromorphic connection without having to perform gauge transforms nor ramifications of the variable. We finally present an efficient algorithm to compute this tropical projection map, generalising Ardila's method for Bergman fans to the case of the tight-span of a valuated matroid.

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