Diagrams and irregular connections on the Riemann sphere

Abstract

We define a diagram associated to any algebraic connection on a vector bundle on a Zariski open subset of the Riemann sphere, extending the definition of Boalch-Yamakawa to the general case featuring several irregular singularities, possibly ramified. We prove that the diagram is invariant under the symplectic automorphisms of the Weyl algebra, encompassing the Fourier-Laplace transform. As an application, we establish several new cases of the observation that different Lax representations of a given Painlev\'e-type equation may be read off directly from the diagram, corresponding to connections with different formal data, usually on different rank bundles.