Galois groups of reductions modulo p of D-finite series

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the algebraicity behavior of reductions of $D$-finite power series modulo prime numbers. For many classes of D-finite functions, such as diagonals of multivariate algebraic series or hypergeometric functions, it is known that their reductions modulo prime numbers, when defined, are algebraic. We formulate a conjecture that uniformizes the Galois groups of these reductions across different prime numbers. We then focus on hypergeometric functions, which serves as a test case for our conjecture. Refining the construction of an annihilating polynomial for the reduction of a hypergeometric function modulo a prime number p, we extract information on the respective Galois groups and show that they behave nicely as p varies.