Christol–André conjecture for globally bounded D-finite power series

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Let finQ[[z]]fin \mathbb{Q}[[z]] be a globally bounded and D-finite power series, and let LfminL^{\mathrm{min}}_f denote its minimal annihilating differential operator. Christol–André conjecture. The following assertions should hold: (1) ff is the diagonal of a rational function; (2) if z=0z=0 is an ordinary point for LfminL^{\mathrm{min}}_f, then ff is algebraic; and (3) if the monodromy of LfminL^{\mathrm{min}}_f at z=0z=0 is semisimple, equivalently if z=0z=0 is not a logarithmic singularity of LfminL^{\mathrm{min}}_f, then ff is algebraic. These conjectures would give structural and effective algebraicity criteria for globally bounded D-finite series. The first assertion is the diagonal conjecture, while the latter two provide algebraicity under additional local hypotheses.

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Alin Bostan, Bruno Salvy and Michael F. Singer, “On deciding transcendence of power series”, arXiv:2504.16697 (2025).

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