Conjecture on the monodromy Hermitian form for A-hypergeometric functions

Let I{\cal I} index the vectors and transition-matrix columns XIX_I arising from the Mellin–Barnes bases, let HH be a Hermitian matrix preserved by all monodromy matrices, and let ΔI\Delta_I and γiI\gamma_i^I denote the quantities associated with III\in{\cal I} in the construction. The orthogonality relations say that XJtHXI=0\overline{X}_J^t H X_I=0 whenever the corresponding vectors bˇI\v b_I and bˇJ\v b_J have a point in common. Monodromy Hermitian-form conjecture. These orthogonality properties suffice to determine HH up to a scalar factor. Furthermore, after a suitable normalization of HH, for every III\in{\cal I} one has

XIHXI=ΔIiIsin(πγiI).\overline{X}_I H X_I=\Delta_I\prod_{i\notin I}\sin(\pi\gamma_i^I).

The conjecture would determine the monodromy-invariant Hermitian form completely from the orthogonality relations and the proposed diagonal values; the source states that these questions had not been answered there.

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Frits Beukers, “Monodromy of A-hypergeometric functions”, arXiv:1101.0493 (2013).

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