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International audience; We revisit miscellaneous linear differential operators mostly associated with lattice Green functions in arbitrary dimensions, but also Calabi-Yau operators and order-seven operators corresponding to exceptional differential Galois groups. We show that these irreducible operators are not only globally nilpotent, but are such that they are homomorphic to their (formal) adjoints. Considering these operators, or, sometimes, equivalent operators, we show that they are also such that, either their symmetric square or their exterior square, have a rational solution. This is a general result: an irreducible linear differential operator homomorphic to its (formal) adjoint is necessarily such that either its symmetric square, or its exterior square has a rational solution, and this situation corresponds to the occurrence of a special differential Galois group. We thus define the notion of being "Special Geometry" for a linear differential operator if it is irreducible, globally nilpotent, and such that it is homomorphic to its (formal) adjoint. Since many Derived From Geometry n-fold integrals ("Periods") occurring in physics, are seen to be diagonals of rational functions, we address several examples of (minimal order) operators annihilating diagonals of rational functions, and remark that they also seem to be, systematically, associated with irreducible factors homomorphic to their adjoint.

Mes recherches portent essentiellement sur l''elaboration de m'ethodes de calcul formel pour l''etude constructive des 'equations diff'erentielles lin'eaires, plus particuli'erement autour de la th'eorie de Galois diff'erentielle. Celles-ci vont du d'eveloppement de la th'eorie sous-jacente aux algorithmes, en incluant leur implantation en Maple. Ces travaux ont en commun une approche exp'erimentale des math'ematiques o'u l'on met l'accent sur l'examen d'exemples les plus pertinents possibles. L''etude d'etaill'ee de cas provenant de la m'ecanique rationnelle ou de la physique th'eorique nourrit en retour le d'eveloppement de th'eories math'ematiques idoines. Mes travaux s'articulent suivant trois grands th'emes interd'ependants : la th'eorie de Galois diff'erentielle effective, ses applications 'a l'int'egrabilit'e de syst'emes hamiltoniens et des applications en physique th'eorique.

International audience; We present algorithms for computing rational and hyperex-ponential solutions of linear D-finite partial differential systems written as integrable connections. We show that these types of solutions can be computed recursively by adapting existing algorithms handling ordinary linear differential systems. We provide an arithmetic complexity analysis of the algorithms that we develop. A Maple implementation is available and some examples and applications are given.

Let $\mathbf{k}$ be a differential field and let $[A]\,:\,Y'=A\,Y$ be a linear differential system where $A\in\mathrm{Mat}(n\,,\,\mathbf{k})$. We say that $A$ is in a reduced form if $A\in\mathfrak{g}(\bar{\mathbf{k}})$ where $\mathfrak{g}$ is the Lie algebra of $[A]$ and $\bar{\mathbf{k}}$ denotes the algebraic closure of $\mathbf{k}$. We owe the existence of such reduced forms to a result due to Kolchin and Kovacic \cite{Ko71a}. This paper is devoted to the study of reduced forms, of (higher order) variational equations along a particular solution of a complex analytical hamiltonian system $X$. Using a previous result \cite{ApWea}, we will assume that the first order variational equation has an abelian Lie algebra so that, at first order, there are no Galoisian obstructions to Liouville integrability. We give a strategy to (partially) reduce the variational equations at order $m+1$ if the variational equations at order $m$ are already in a reduced form and their Lie algebra is abelian. Our procedure stops when we meet obstructions to the meromorphic integrability of $X$. We make strong use both of the lower block triangular structure of the variational equations and of the notion of associated Lie algebra of a linear differential system (based on the works of Wei and Norman in \cite{WeNo63a}). Obstructions to integrability appear when at some step we obtain a non-trivial commutator between a diagonal element and a nilpotent (subdiagonal) element of the associated Lie algebra. We use our method coupled with a reasoning on polylogarithms to give a new and systematic proof of the non-integrability of the H\'enon-Heiles system. We conjecture that our method is not only a partial reduction procedure but a complete reduction algorithm. In the context of complex Hamiltonian systems, this would mean that our method would be an effective version of the Morales-Ramis-Sim\'o theorem., Comment: 15 pages

Lectures of a school and workshop organized at the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, July and August 2006

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