A note on the inverse problem for finite differential Galois groups

Abstract

In this paper we revisit the following inverse problem: given a curve invariant under an irreducible finite linear algebraic group, can we construct an ordinary linear differential equation whose Schwarz map parametrizes it? We present an algorithmic solution to this problem under the assumption that we are given the function field of the quotient curve. The result provides a generalization and an efficient implementation of the solution to the inverse problem exposed by van der Put et al. (2020). As an application, we show that there is no hypergeometric equation with projective differential Galois group isomorphic to , thus completing Beukers and Heckman’s answer (Beukers and Heckman, 1989) to the question of which irreducible finite subgroup of are the projective monodromy of a hypergeometric equation.