The exterior-square CY(5) conjecture

Let P=P(θ,z){\cal P}={\cal P}(\theta,z) be a CY(4)-operator, and let Q{\cal Q} be the fifth-order differential operator constructed from P{\cal P} by requiring that, for any two linearly independent solutions y1,y2y_1,y_2 of Py=0{\cal P}y=0, the function

w=zy1y2y1y2w=z\left|\begin{array}{cc}y_1 & y_2 \\ y_1' & y_2'\end{array}\right|

is a solution of Qw=0{\cal Q}w=0. The operator Q{\cal Q} is said to satisfy the third condition of CY(5) when it has an integral power series solution. The exterior-square CY(5) conjecture. The differential operator Q{\cal Q}, constructed from a CY(4)-operator P{\cal P} as above, satisfies the third condition of CY(5). In all examples considered in the source, this condition holds, but a general proof is not known; if the conjecture holds, then Q{\cal Q} is a CY(5)-operator.

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Kira Samol and Duco van Straten, “Frobenius polynomials for Calabi-Yau equations”, arXiv:0802.3994 (2008).

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