Singularities of $n$-fold integrals of the Ising class and the theory of elliptic curves

We introduce some multiple integrals that are expected to have the same singularities as the singularities of the $ n$-particle contributions $\chi^{(n)}$ to the susceptibility of the square lattice Ising model. We find the Fuchsian linear differenti…

Authors: ** *원문에 저자 정보가 명시되어 있지 않음.* (일반적으로 J‑M Maillard, B. Nickel, N. Zenine

Singularities of $n$-fold integrals of the Ising class and the theory of   elliptic curves
Singularities of n -fold in tegrals of the Ising lass and the theory of ellipti urv es S. Boukraa † , S. Hassani § , J.-M. Maillard ‡ and N. Zenine § † LPTHIRM and Départemen t d'Aéronautique, Univ ersité de Blida, Algeria Cen tre de Re her he Nuléaire d'Alger, 2 Bd. F ran tz F anon, BP 399, 16000 Alger, Algeria ‡ LPTMC, Univ ersité de P aris 6, T our 24, 4ème étage, ase 121, 4 Plae Jussieu, 75252 P aris Cedex 05, F rane E-mail: maillardlptm.jussieu.fr , maillardlptl.jussieu.f r, boukraamail.univ-blida. dz, njzenineyahoo.om Abstrat. W e in tro due some m ultiple in tegrals that are exp eted to ha v e the same singularities as the singularities of the n -partile on tributions χ ( n ) to the suseptibilit y of the square lattie Ising mo del. W e nd the F u hsian linear dieren tial equation satised b y these m ultiple in tegrals for n = 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and only mo dulo some primes for n = 5 and 6 , th us pro viding a large set of (p ossible) new singularities of the χ ( n ) . W e disuss the singularit y struture for these m ultiple in tegrals b y solving the Landau onditions. W e nd that the singularities of the asso iated ODEs iden tify (up to n = 6 ) with the leading pin h Landau singularities. The seond remark able obtained feature is that the singularities of the ODEs asso iated with the m ultiple in tegrals redue to the singularities of the ODEs asso iated with a nite numb er of one dimensional inte gr als . Among the singularities found, w e underline the fat that the quadrati p olynomial ondition 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 , that o urs in the linear dieren tial equation of χ (3) , atually orresp onds to a remark able prop ert y of seleted ellipti urv es, namely the o urrene of omplex m ultipliation. The in terpretation of omplex m ultipliation for ellipti urv es as omplex xed p oin ts of the seleted generators of the renormalization group, namely isogenies of ellipti urv es, is sk et hed. Most of the other singularities o urring in our m ultiple in tegrals are not related to omplex m ultipliation situations, suggesting an in terpretation in terms of (motivi) mathematial strutures b ey ond the theory of ellipti urv es. P A CS : 05.50.+q, 05.10.-a, 02.30.Hq, 02.30.Gp, 02.40.Xx AMS Classiation s heme n um b ers : 34M55, 47E05, 81Qxx, 32G34, 34Lxx, 34Mxx, 14Kxx Key-w ords : Suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del, singular b eha viour, F u hsian linear dieren tial equations, apparen t singularities, Landau singularities, pin h singularities, mo dular forms, Landen transformation, isogenies of ellipti urv es, omplex m ultipliation, Heegner n um b ers, mo duli spae of urv es, p oin ted urv es. 1. In tro dution The suseptibilit y χ of the square lattie Ising mo del has b een sho wn b y W u, MCo y , T ray and Barou h [ 1 ℄ to b e expressible as an innite sum of holomorphi funtions, Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 2 giv en as m ultiple in tegrals, denoted χ ( n ) , that is k T · χ = P χ ( n ) . B. Ni k el found [2, 3℄ that ea h of these χ ( n ) 's is atually singular on a set of p oin ts lo ated on the unit irle | s | = | sinh(2 K ) | = 1 , where K = J/ k T is the usual Ising mo del temp erature v ariable. These singularities are lo ated at solution p oin ts of the follo wing equations: 2 ·  s + 1 s  = u k + 1 u k + u m + 1 u m u 2 n +1 = 1 , − n ≤ m, k ≤ n (1) F rom no w on, w e will all these singularities of the Ni k elian t yp e, or simply Ni k elian singularities. The aum ulation of this innite set of singularities of the higher-partile omp onen ts of χ ( s ) on the unit irle | s | = 1 , leads, in the absene of m utual anellation, to some onsequenes regarding the non holonomi (non D- nite)  harater of the suseptibilit y , p ossibly building a natural b oundary for the total χ ( s ) . Ho w ev er, it should b e noted that new singularities that are not of the Ni k elian t yp e w ere diso v ered as singularities of the F u hsian linear dieren tial equation asso iated [4 , 5, 6℄ with χ (3) and as singularities of χ (3) itself [7℄ but seen as a funtion of s . They orresp ond to the quadrati p olynomial 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 where 2 w = s/ (1 + s 2 ) . In on trast with this situation, the F u hsian linear dieren tial equation, asso iated [8℄ with χ (4) , do es not pro vide an y new singularities. Some remark able Russian-doll struture as w ell as diret sum deomp ositions w ere found for the orresp onding linear dieren tial op erators for χ (3) and χ (4) . In order to understand the true nature of the suseptibilit y of the square lattie Ising mo del, it is of fundamen tal imp ortane to ha v e a b etter understanding of the singularit y struture of the n -partile on tributions χ ( n ) , and also of the mathematial strutures asso iated with these χ ( n ) , namely the innite set of (probably F u hsian) linear dieren tial equations asso iated with this innite set of holonomi funtions. Finding more F u hsian linear dieren tial equations ha ving the χ ( n ) 's as solutions, b ey ond those already found [4 , 8℄ for χ (3) and χ (4) , probably requires the p erformane of a large set of analytial, mathematial and omputer programming tours-de-fore. As an alternativ e, and in order to b ypass this temp orary obstrution, w e ha v e dev elop ed, in parallel, a new strategy . W e ha v e in tro dued [7 ℄ some single (or m ultiple) mo del in tegrals as an ersatz for the χ ( n ) 's as far as the lo us of the singularities is onerned. The χ ( n ) 's are dened b y ( n − 1) -dimensional in tegrals [3, 9 , 10 ℄ (omitting the prefator ‡ ) ˜ χ ( n ) = (2 w ) n n ! n − 1 Y j =1 Z 2 π 0 dφ j 2 π  n Y j =1 y j  · R ( n ) ·  G ( n )  2 (2) where G ( n ) =  n Y j =1 x j  ( n − 1) / 2 Y 1 ≤ i T c and (1 − s − 4 ) 1 / 4 for T < T c . Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 3 with x i = 2 w 1 − 2 w cos( φ i ) + q (1 − 2 w cos( φ i )) 2 − 4 w 2 , (5) y i = 1 q (1 − 2 w cos( φ i )) 2 − 4 w 2 , n X j =1 φ j = 0 . (6) The t w o families of in tegrals w e ha v e onsidered in [7℄ are v ery rough appro ximations of the in tegrals (2 ). F or the rst family † , w e onsidered the n -fold in tegrals orresp onding to the pro dut of (the square ‡ of the) y i 's, in tegrated o v er the whole domain of in tegration of the φ i (th us getting rid of the fators G ( n ) and R ( n ) ). Here, w e found a subset of singularities o urring in the χ ( n ) as w ell as the quadrati p olynomial ondition 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 . F or the seond family , w e disarded the fator G ( n ) and the pro dut of y i 's, and w e restrited the domain of in tegration to the prinipal diagonal of the angles φ i ( φ 1 = φ 2 = · · · = φ n − 1 ). These simple in tegrals (o v er a single v ariable), w ere denoted [7 ℄ Φ ( n ) D : Φ ( n ) D = − 1 n ! + 2 n ! Z 2 π 0 dφ 2 π 1 1 − x n − 1 ( φ ) · x (( n − 1) φ ) (7) where x ( φ ) is giv en b y (5). Remark ably these v ery simple in tegrals b oth r epr o du e al l the singularities , disussed b y Ni k el [2 , 3 ℄, as w ell as the quadrati ro ots of 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 found [4, 5 ℄ for the linear ODE of χ (3) . One should ho w ev er note that, in on trast with the χ ( n ) , no Russian-doll or diret sum deomp osition struture is found for the linear dieren tial op erators orresp onding to these Φ ( n ) D . Another approa h has b een in tro dued as a simpliation of the suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del b y onsidering a magneti eld restrited to one diagonal of the square lattie [11 ℄. F or this diagonal suseptibilit y mo del [11 ℄, w e b eneted from the form fator de  omp osition of the diagonal t w o-p oin t orrelations C ( N , N ) , that has b een reen tly presen ted [12 ℄, and subsequen tly pro v ed b y Lyb erg and MCo y [13 ℄. The orresp onding n -fold in tegrals χ ( n ) d w ere found to exhibit remark able diret sum strutures inherited from the diret sum strutures of the form fator [11, 12 ℄. The linear dieren tial op erators of the form fator [ 12℄ b eing losely link ed to the seond order dieren tial op erator L E (resp. L K ) of the omplete ellipti in tegrals E (resp. K ), this diagonal suseptibilit y mo del [11 ℄ is losely link ed to the ellipti urv es of the t w o-dimensional Ising mo del. By w a y of on trast, w e note that the singularities of the linear ODE's for these n -fold in tegrals [11 ℄ χ ( n ) d are quite elemen tary (onsisting of only n -th ro ots of unit y) in omparison with the singularities w e enoun ter for the in tegrals on a single v ariable (7). These t w o approa hes orresp onding to t w o dieren t sets of n -fold in tegrals of the Ising lass [14 ℄ are omplemen tary: (7) is more dediated to repro due the non- trivial head p olynomials eno ding the lo ation of the singularities of the χ ( n ) , but fails † Denoted Y ( n ) ( w ) in [7℄. ‡ Surprisingly the in tegrand with ( Q n j =1 y j ) 2 yields seond order linear dieren tial equations [7 ℄, and onsequen tly , w e ha v e b een able to totally deipher the orresp onding singularit y struture. By w a y of on trast the in tegrand with the simple pro dut ( Q n j =1 y j ) yields linear dieren tial equations of higher order, but with iden tial singularities [7℄. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 4 to repro due some remark able (Russian-doll, diret sum deomp osition) algebraio- dieren tial strutures of the orresp onding linear dieren tial op erators, while the other one [11 ℄ preserv es these non-trivial strutures of the orresp onding linear dieren tial op erators but pro vides a p o orer represen tation of the lo ation of the singularities ( n -th ro ots of unit y). In this pap er, w e return to the in tegrals (2) where, this time, the natural next step is to onsider the follo wing family of n -fold in tegrals Φ ( n ) H = 1 n ! · n − 1 Y j =1 Z 2 π 0 dφ j 2 π ·  n Y j =1 y j  · 1 + Q n i =1 x i 1 − Q n i =1 x i (8) whi h amoun ts to getting rid of the (fermioni) fator ( G ( n ) ) 2 in the n -fold in tegral (2). This family is as lose as p ossible to ( 2), for whi h w e kno w that nding the orresp onding linear dieren tial ODE's is a h uge task. The idea here is that the metho ds and te hniques w e ha v e dev elop ed [4, 5℄ for series expansions alulations of χ (3) and χ (4) , seem to indiate that the quite in v olv ed fermioni term ( G ( n ) ) 2 in the in tegrand of ( 2) should not impat greatly on the lo ation of singularities of these n -fold in tegrals (2 ). This is the b est simpliation of the in tegrand of (2 ) for whi h w e an exp et to retain m u h exat information ab out the lo ation of the singularities of the original Ising problem. Ho w ev er, w e ertainly do not exp et to reo v er from the n -fold in tegrals (8) the lo al singular b eha vior (exp onen ts, amplitudes of singularities, et ...). Getting rid of the (fermioni) fator ( G ( n ) ) 2 are w e mo ving a w a y from the ellipti urv es of the t w o-dimensional Ising mo del ? Could it b e p ossible that w e lose the strong (Russian-doll, diret sum deomp osition) algebraio-dieren tial strutures of the orresp onding linear dieren tial op erators inherited from the seond order dieren tial op erator L E (resp. L K ) of the omplete ellipti in tegrals E (resp. K ) but k eep some  haraterization of ellipti urv es through more primitiv e (univ ersal) features of these n -fold in tegral lik e the lo ation of their singularities ? In the sequel, w e giv e the expressions of Φ (1) H , Φ (2) H and the F u hsian linear dieren tial equations for Φ ( n ) H for n = 3 and n = 4 . F or n = 5 , 6 , the omputation (linear ODE sear h of a series) b eomes m u h harder. Consequen tly w e use a mo dulo prime metho d to obtain the form of the orresp onding linear ODE with totally expliit singularit y struture. These results pro vide a large set of andidate singularities for the χ ( n ) . F rom the resolution of the Landau onditions [7℄ for (8), w e sho w that the singularities of (the linear ODEs of ) these m ultiple in tegrals atually redue to the onatanation of the singularities of (the linear ODEs of ) a set of one-dimensional in tegrals. W e disuss the mathemati al, as wel l as physi al, interpr etation of these new singularities. In partiular w e will see that they orresp ond to pinhe d L andau- like singularities as previously notied b y Ni k el [15 ℄. Among all these p olynomial singularities, the quadrati n um b ers 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 are highly seleted. W e will sho w that these seleted quadrati n um b ers are related to  omplex multipli ation for the el lipti urves parameterizing the square Ising mo del. The pap er is organized as follo ws. Setion (2) presen ts the m ultidimensional in tegrals Φ ( n ) H and the singularities of the orresp onding linear ODE for n = 3 , · · · , 6 , that w e ompare with the singularities obtained from the Landau onditions. W e sho w that the set of singularities asso iated with the ODEs of the m ultiple in tegrals Φ ( n ) H redue to the singularities of the ODEs asso iated with a nite numb er of one- dimensional inte gr als . Setion (3) deals with the  omplex multipli ation for the el lipti Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 5 urves related to the singularities giv en b y the zeros of the quadrati p olynomial 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 . Our onlusions are giv en in setion ( 4). 2. The singularities of the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) H F or the rst t w o v alues of n , one obtains Φ (1) H = 1 1 − 4 w (9) and Φ (2) H = 1 2 · 1 1 − 16 w 2 · 2 F 1 (1 / 2 , − 1 / 2 ; 1; 16 w 2 ) . (10) F or n ≥ 3 , the series o eien ts of the m ultiple in tegrals Φ ( n ) H are obtained b y expanding in the v ariables x i and p erforming the in tegration (see App endix A). One obtains Φ ( n ) H = 1 n ! · ∞ X k =0 ∞ X p =0 (2 − δ k, 0 ) · (2 − δ p, 0 ) · w n ( k + p ) · a n ( k , p ) (11) where a ( k , p ) is a 4 F 3 h yp ergeometri series dep enden t on w . The adv an tage of using these simplied in tegrals (8) instead of the original ones (2) is t w ofold. Using (11) the series generation is straigh tforw ard ompared to the omplexit y related to the χ ( n ) . As an illustration note that on a desk omputer, Φ ( n ) H are generated up to w 200 in less than 10 seonds CPU time for all v alues of n , while the simplest ase of the χ ( n ) , namely χ (3) , to oks three min utes to generate the series up to w 200 . This dierene b et w een the Φ ( n ) H and χ ( n ) inreases rapidly with inreasing n and inreasing n um b er of generated terms. W e note that for the Φ ( n ) H quan tities and for a xed order, the CPU time is dereasing ♯ with inreasing n . F or χ ( n ) the opp osite is the ase. The seond p oin t is that, for a giv en n , the linear ODE an b e found with less terms in the series ompared to the linear ODE for the χ ( n ) . Indeed for χ (3) , 360 terms w ere needed while 150 terms w ere enough for Φ (3) H . The same feature holds for χ (4) and Φ (4) H (185 terms for χ (4) and 56 terms ¶ for Φ (4) H ). With the fully in tegrated sum (11 ), a suien t n um b er of terms is generated to obtain the linear dieren tial equations. W e sueeded in obtaining the linear dieren tial equations, resp etiv ely of minimal order v e and six, orresp onding to Φ (3) H and Φ (4) H . These linear ODE's are giv en in App endix B. F or Φ ( n ) H ( n ≥ 5 ), the alulations, in order to get the linear ODEs b eome really h uge ‡ . F or this reason, w e in tro due a mo dular strategy whi h amoun ts to generating large series mo dulo a prime and then deduing the ODE mo dulo that prime. Note that the ODE of minimal order is not ne  essarily the simplest one as far as the required n um b er of terms in the series expansion to nd the linear ODE is onerned. W e ha v e already enoun tered su h a situation [8, 11 ℄. F or Φ (5) H (resp. Φ (6) H ), the linear ODE ♯ This an b e seen from the series expansion (11 ). Denoting R 0 the xed order, one has n · ( p + k ) ≤ R 0 , while the CPU time for the series generation of a n ( k, p ) is not strongly dep enden t on n . ¶ F rom no w on, for ev en n , the n um b er of terms stands for the n um b er of terms in the v ariable x = w 2 . ‡ Exept the generation of large series whi h remains reasonable. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 6 of minimal order is of order 17 (resp. 27) and needs 8471 (resp. 9272) terms in the series expansion to b e found. A tually , for Φ (5) H (resp. Φ (6) H ), w e ha v e found the orresp onding linear ODEs of order 28 (resp. 42) with only 2208 (resp. 1838) terms from whi h w e ha v e dedued the minimal ones. The form of these t w o minimal order linear ODEs obtained mo dulo primes is sk et hed in App endix B . In partiular, the singularities (giv en b y the ro ots of the head p olynomial in fron t of the highest order deriv ativ e), are giv en with the orresp onding m ultipliit y in App endix B . Some details ab out the ODE sear h are also giv en in App endix B . W e ha v e also obtained v ery long series (20000 o eien ts) mo dulo primes for Φ (7) H , but, unfortunately , this has not b een suien t to iden tify the linear ODE (mo d. prime) up to order 100. The singularities of the linear ODE for the rst Φ ( n ) H are resp etiv ely zeros of the follo wing p olynomials (b esides w = ∞ ): n = 3 , w ·  1 − 16 w 2  (1 − w ) ( 1 + 2 w )  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2  , n = 4 , w ·  1 − 16 w 2   1 − 4 w 2  , n = 5 , w ·  1 − 16 w 2   1 − w 2  (1 + 2 w )  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 3 w + w 2   1 + 2 w − 4 w 2   1 + 4 w + 8 w 2   1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3   1 − w − 3 w 2 + 4 w 3   1 + 8 w + 20 w 2 + 15 w 3 + 4 w 4  , (12) n = 6 , w ·  1 − 16 w 2   1 − 4 w 2   1 − w 2   1 − 25 w 2   1 − 9 w 2   1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 10 w 2 + 29 w 4  . (13) F or n = 7 and n = 8 , b esides mo dulo primes series alulations desrib ed ab o v e, w e also generated v ery large series from whi h w e obtained in oating p oin t form, the p olynomials giv en in App endix C (using generalised dieren tial P adé metho ds). If w e ompare the singularities for Φ ( n ) H to those obtained with the Diagonal mo del ♯  presen ted in [7℄, i.e. Φ ( n ) D , one sees that the singularities of the linear ODE for the Diagonal mo del are iden tial to those of the linear ODE of the Φ ( n ) H for n = 3 , 4 (and are a prop er subset to those of Φ ( n ) H for n = 5 , 6 ). The additional singularities for n = 5 , 6 are zeros of the p olynomials: n = 5 ,  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 + 4 w + 8 w 2  ×  1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3  , n = 6 ,  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 25 w 2  . F or n = 7 , the zeros of the follo wing p olynomials (among others) are singularities whi h are not of Ni k el's t yp e ( 1) and do not o ur for Φ ( n ) D : 1 + 8 w + 1 5 w 2 − 21 w 3 − 60 w 4 + 16 w 5 + 96 w 6 + 64 w 7 , 1 − 4 w − 1 6 w 2 − 48 w 3 + 32 w 4 − 128 w 5 . ♯ Not to b e onfused with the diagonal suseptibilit y and the orresp onding [11℄ n -fold in tegrals χ ( n ) d . Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 7 The linear ODEs of the m ultiple in tegrals Φ ( n ) H th us displa y additional singularities for n = 5 , 6 and n = 7 ( n = 8 see b elo w) ompared to the linear ODE of the single in tegrals Φ ( n ) D . W e found it remark able that the linear ODEs for the in tegrals Φ ( n ) D displa y all the Ni k elian singularities, as w ell as the new quadrati n um b ers 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 found for χ (3) . It is th us in teresting to see ho w the singularities for Φ ( n ) D are inluded in the singularities for Φ ( n ) H and whether the new (with resp et to Φ ( n ) D ) singularities an b e giv en b y one-dimensional in tegrals similar to Φ ( n ) D . Let us men tion that the singularities of the linear ODE for Φ (3) H (resp etiv ely Φ (4) H ) ar e r emarkably also singularities of the linear ODE for Φ (5) H (resp etiv ely Φ (6) H ). In the follo wing, w e will sho w ho w this omes ab out and ho w it generalizes. F or this, w e solv e in the sequel the Landau onditions for the n -fold in tegrals (8). 2.1. L andau  onditions for the Φ ( n ) H W e remind the reader that the Landau onditions [7℄ are ne  essary onditions for singularities to b e the singularities of the inte gr al r epr esentation itself . In a previous pap er [7 ℄, w e ha v e sho wn for partiular in tegral represen tations b elonging to the Ising lass in tegrals [14 ℄, that in fat the solutions of Landau onditions iden tify for sp ei ¶ ongurations (see b elo w) with the singularities of the ODE asso iated with the quan tit y under onsideration. The Landau onditions [7℄ amoun t to arrying out algebrai alulations [7 ℄ on the in tegrand (8) to get singularities of these n -fold in tegrals or ev en, as w e will see in the sequel, singularities of the orresp onding linear ODE [7℄. In the sequel w e use the follo wing in tegral represen tation [ 1, 2℄: y j x n j = Z 2 π 0 dψ j 2 π · exp( i n ψ j ) 1 − 2 w · (cos( φ j ) + cos( ψ j )) . (14) Dening D ( φ j , ψ j ) = 1 − 2 w · (cos( φ j ) + cos( ψ j )) , (15) the in tegral Φ ( n ) H (see its expansion (A.1) in App endix A), b eomes Φ ( n ) H = 1 n ! · Z 2 π 0 n Y j =1 dφ j 2 π dψ j 2 π (16) × D − 1 ( φ j , ψ j ) · δ   n X j =1 φ j   δ   n X j =1 ψ j   , where the Dira delta's are in tro dued to tak e are of the onditions n X j =1 φ j = 0 , n X j =1 ψ j = 0 mo d . 2 π (17) on b oth the angles φ j and the auxillary angles ψ j . ¶ In that resp et one m ust reall the notion of leading singularities in on trast with the subleading singularities (see page 54 in [16℄.) Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 8 The Landau onditions [16 , 17 ℄ an easily b e written [7 ℄: α j · D ( φ j , ψ j ) = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n , (18) β j · φ j = 0 , γ j · ψ j = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n − 1 , (19) α j · sin( φ j ) − α n · sin( φ n ) + β j = 0 , j = 1 , · · · n − 1 , (20) α j · sin( ψ j ) − α n · sin( ψ n ) + γ j = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n − 1 (21) together with (17 ). The Landau singularities are obtained b y solving these equations ♯ in all the unkno wns, where the parameters α j , β j , γ j should not b e all equal to zero. In this pap er, our aim is not to nd all the solutions of the ab o v e equations but to sho w that the singularities of the linear ODE for the Φ ( n ) H are solutions of the Landau onditions. F urthermore, in w orking out v arious Ising lass in tegrals [ 14 ℄ and the t w o mo dels of [7℄ (see App endix D), w e remark ed that the singularities of the linear ODE are, in fat, inluded in a partiular onguration. What w e mean b y onguration is the set of v alues (equal to zero or not) of the parameters α j , β j , γ j . The onguration w e onsider α j 6 = 0 , β j = γ j = 0 , (22) orresp onds to pinh singularities on the manifolds D ( φ j , ψ j ) = 0 . One ma y also b e on vined to tak e β j = γ j = 0 , sine the in tegrand is p erio di †† in φ j and ψ j . Let us stress that the the onguration onsidered where all the Lagrange m ultipliers of the singularit y manifolds D ( φ, ψ ) are dieren t from zero ( α j 6 = 0 , for an y j ) leads to the so-alled le ading L andau singularities follo wing the terminology of page 54 of [16 ℄. The Landau onditions b eome: 1 − 2 w · (cos( φ j ) + cos ( ψ j )) = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n, (23) α j sin( φ j ) − α n sin( φ n ) = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n − 1 , (24) α j sin( ψ j ) − α n sin( ψ n ) = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n − 1 . (25) and: n X j =1 φ j = 0 , n X j =1 ψ j = 0 mo d . 2 π (26) The Landau singularities are solutions of these onditions (see App endix E for details). Note that the rst three onditions (23), (24 ), (25 ) are in v arian t b y the transformation: w − → − w, φ j − → φ j + π , ψ j − → ψ j + π . (27) but the Landau onditions ( 23 ), (24 ), (25 ) together with (26 ) are in v arian t b y transformation (27 ) if and only if n is even . This distintion b et w een ev en and o dd in teger n (orresp onding to the symmetry breaking of w ↔ − w ) is reminisen t of the distintion b et w een ev en and o dd in teger n for the χ ( n ) asso iated with the distintion b et w een lo w and high temp erature regimes. The Landau onditions yield t w o families of singularities expressed in terms of Cheb yshev p olynomials of the rst and seond kind. The rst family reads: T 2 p 1 (1 / 2 w + 1) = T n − 2 p 1 − 2 p 2 (1 / 2 w − 1) , (28) 0 ≤ p 1 ≤ [ n/ 2] , 0 ≤ p 2 ≤ [ n/ 2] − p 1 ♯ Note that onditions (19 ), β j · φ j = 0 , γ j · ψ j = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n − 1 ha v e to b e onsidered in the general Landau onditions. They do not o ur if one restrits oneself to pin h singularities. †† B. Ni k el, priv ate omm uniation. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 9 The seond family is giv en b y the elimination of z from: T n 1 ( z ) − T n 2  4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  = 0 , (29) T n 1  1 2 w − z  − T n 2  1 2 w − 4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  = 0 , U n 2 − 1 ( z ) · U n 1 − 1  1 2 w − 4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  − U n 2 − 1  1 2 w − z  · U n 1 − 1  4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  = 0 with n 1 = p 1 , n 2 = n − p 1 − 2 p 2 , (30) 0 ≤ p 1 ≤ n, 0 ≤ p 2 ≤ [( n − p 1 ) / 2] . (31) One reognizes in the rst set of equations (28 ), a generalization of the singularities giv en b y Ni k el [15 ℄ for the pin h singularities oming from the pro dut of the y j 's, and also deriv ed for our m ultiple in tegral denoted Y ( n ) in [7℄. These ha v e b een written as [7 , 15 ℄: T k (1 / 2 w + 1) = T n − k (1 / 2 w − 1) (32) Note that, omparativ ely to (28 ), the in teger k should b e ev en † . The seond set of equations (29) is a generalization of the singularities w e deriv ed for Φ ( n ) D in [7℄. In b oth form ulae, one notes the o urrene of a seond v arying in teger p 2 , leading to a b etter understanding of the singularities of these in tegrals. Indeed with p 2 running, the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) H will automatially on tain all the singularities of the linear ODEs for Φ ( n − 2) H , Φ ( n − 4) H , · · · , Φ ( n − 2 q ) H . F or n = 7 , w e ha v e  he k ed that the singularities sp ei to n = 7 ( p 2 = 0 in (28), (29 )) also app ear as singularities of the linear ODE in oating p oin t form (see App endix D for details). F or p 2 = 1 , part of the singularities app ear in oating p oin t form, while for p 2 = 2 (i.e. singularities of Φ (3) H ), no singularities app ear in oating p oin t form. Similarly , for n = 8 , w e ha v e  he k ed that the singularities sp ei to n = 8 ( p 2 = 0 in (28 ), (29 )) also app ear as singularities of the linear ODE in oating p oin t form (see App endix D for details). F or p 2 ≥ 1 , no singularities app ear in oating p oin t form. Let us remark that the non observ ation of some singularities in oating p oin t form is not really signian t. Indeed, w e ha v e used 1250 (resp. 1200 terms) for Φ (7) H (resp. Φ (8) H ) while the Φ (7) H and Φ (8) H linear ODEs need more than 20000 terms. Figure 1 sho ws the rst family of singularities ( 28) displa y ed in the omplex s plane lose enough to the unit s -irle. This gure learly sho ws a quite ri h struture for these set of p oin ts. This gure lo oks lik e a net w ork of no dal p oin ts link ed together b y (ardioid-lik e) urv es that an, at rst sigh t, hardly b e distinguished from ars of irles. In partiular the seleted p oin ts 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 as w ell as the singularities for Φ (5) , lik e 1 + 8 w + 20 w 2 + 15 w 3 + 4 w 4 = 0 an b e seen to o ur quite learly as some of these no dal p oin ts. † This is a onsequene of (23 ), (24 ), (25 ), (26 ) yielding k · π = 0 mo d. 2 π (see App endix E.1). Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 10 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 Figure 1. First family of singularities (28 ) in the omplex s plane ( n ≤ 51 ). –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 Figure 2. First family of singularities (28 ) in the omplex s plane far from the unit irle ( n ≤ 51 ). Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 11 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 Figure 3. First and seond family of singularities ( 28 ), (29 ) in the omplex s plane ( n ≤ 16 ). –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 Figure 4. First and seond family of singularities ( 28 ), (29 ) in the omplex s plane far from the unit irle ( n ≤ 16 ). Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 12 Figure 2 sho ws the rst family of singularities (28) far from the unit irle. Figure 3 sho ws all the singularities altogether (rst and seond family) lose to the unit s - irle. Finally gure 4 sho ws all the singularities together ((28), (29)) that are not so lose to the unit s -irle. The aum ulation of singularities one an see on gure 1 near s = i and s = − i seem to onrm the statemen t made in Orri k et al [18 ℄ that these t w o p oin ts are t w o quite unpleasan t p oin ts for the suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del for whi h the series expansions are not ev en asymptotially on v ergen t. Besides repro duing exatly the singularities of the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) H , it is remark able to see from the form ula (28 ), (29 ), ho w to tra k where ea h singularit y- p olynomial omes from. This allo ws one to understand ho w the singularities of the Ising lik e in tegrals Y ( n ) and Φ ( n ) D (see [7 ℄) and ev en the Ni k elian singularities (1 ) emerge in these m ultiple in tegrals ( 8). This omes simply from the partition (30 ) and the equiv alen t one in ( 28). 2.2. Singularities: fr om n -fold inte gr als to one dimensional inte gr als Consider for instane the singularities 1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3 = 0 o urring in Φ (5) H , whi h are giv en b y (28 ) for n = 5 , p 1 = 1 and p 2 = 0 . As far as onditions on the in tegration angles (see (33) b elo w), this arises from a situation where t w o angles are equal and the three others are equal. Reall that the Φ ( n ) D in tegrals are onstruted with the follo wing restritions on the angles: φ 1 = φ 2 = · · · = φ, φ n = − ( n − 1) φ. (33) One sees that a generalization of this mo del (33 ) is simply: φ 1 = φ 2 = · · · = φ k , φ k +1 = φ k +2 = · · · = φ n , k = 0 , 1 , · · · , [ n / 2] . (34) By the ondition on the angles, this  ase is inde e d one dimensional , with: φ n = − ( n − k ) k · φ + 2 j π k , j integer . (35) The mo del (33 ) is ob viously giv en b y (34) for k = 1 . The Ni k elian singularities are also giv en b y (34) for k = 0 , but this time, the underlying mo del is zero- dimensional. The mo del onstruted along the same lines as in [ 7 ℄ orresp onds to an in tegrand: n − 1 X j =0 1 1 − x n  2 π j n  . (36) The Ni k elian singularities arise as p oles. F or k ≥ 2 , the singularities giv en b y the mo del (34 ), whi h app ear in (8), are th us giv en neither b y ( 1) nor b y Φ ( n ) D . Consider one v ariable of in tegration su h as (7), where the in tegrand is: 1 1 − x n − 1 ( φ ) · x (( n − 1) φ ) − → 1 1 − x n − k ( φ ) · x k ( φ n ) . (37) and denote b y Φ ( n ) k su h in tegrals (one then has Φ ( n ) 1 = Φ ( n ) D ). Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 13 Fix n = 5 and k = 2 . The onstrain t (35 ) on the angles reads: φ 5 = − 3 2 φ 1 + j π , j integer (38) with one in tegration v ariable. The series of o eien ts of Φ (5) 2 is generated along the same lines as for Φ ( n ) D (see App endix A). The F u hsian linear dieren tial equation is of order six and this order is indep enden t of the v alue of j in (38 ). The singularities of the linear ODE are zeros of the follo wing p olynomials: w ·  1 − 16 w 2  (1 + w )  1 − 3 w + w 2   1 + 2 w − 4 w 2  ×  1 + 4 w + 8 w 2   1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3  . (39) W e obtain singularities (from the last t w o p olynomials) app earing for Φ (5) H and not o urring for Φ (5) D . The o urrene of the singularities 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 for (the linear ODE of ) Φ (5) H but not for (the linear ODE of ) Φ (5) D is explained along similar lines. Note that these singularities are ommon to (the linear ODE of ) Φ (3) H , Φ (5) H and Φ (6) H . The p olynomial 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 app ears for (the linear ODE of ) Φ (5) H from (28), namely: T 2 p 1 (1 / 2 w + 1) = T n − 2 p 2 − 2 p 1 (1 / 2 w − 1) . (40) One sees that the p olynomial 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 will app ear for all om binations of n , p 1 and p 2 su h that: 2 p 1 = 2 , n − 2 p 2 − 2 p 1 = 1 . (41) In other w ords, the p olynomial that arises for giv en n and p 1 , wil l also app e ar for the same v alue of p 1 and for n − 2 p 2 . The singularities orresp onding to 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 o ur for Φ (5) H with n = 5 , p 1 = 1 and p 2 = 1 , but (41 ) is also satised for n = 3 , p 1 = 1 and p 2 = 0 whi h sho ws a situation with three angles,with t w o of them equal. This is preisely the in tegrand in (7), i.e. in Φ (3) D . Consider no w the ase n = 6 and k = 2 . This amoun ts to onsidering the n -fold in tegral Φ (6) 2 with: φ 6 = − 2 φ 1 + j π , j integer . (42) The results are dep enden t on the in teger j . F or instane, the series around w = 0 reads: Φ (6) 2 = 1 + w 6 + 32 w 8 ± w 9 + 659 w 10 (43) ± 1296 w 11 + 1169 1 w 12 + · · · With the + sign in the series (43), the linear dieren tial equation is of order v e and the singularities are giv en b y the zeros of the p olynomials: w ·  1 − 16 w 2  (1 − w ) ( 1 + 2 w )  1 − 9 w 2  ×  1 − 25 w 2   1 + 3 w + 4 w 2  . (44) The results orresp onding to the  hoie of a min us sign in the series (43 ) are ob viously obtained b y § w → − w . W e obtain the singularities 1 − 25 w 2 and 1 ± 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 o urring for (the linear ODE of ) Φ (6) H but not for (the linear ODE of ) Φ (6) D . Similarly , for n = 7 , ( k go es to 3), one obtains for k = 2 , the singularities as zeros of the follo wing p olynomial 1 + 8 w + 15 w 2 − 21 w 3 − 60 w 4 + 16 w 5 + 96 w 6 + 64 w 7 , § The last ase for n = 6 , i.e. k = 3 do es not pro vide singularities other than Ni k el's. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 14 whi h has indeed b een found n umerially in the linear ODE sear h on a large series orresp onding to Φ (7) H (see App endix C). W e ha v e the remark able fat that the singularities of the linear ODE for the m ultiple in tegral Φ ( n ) H are giv en b y a nite set of singularities of linear ODEs of a set of one-dimensional in tegrals, namely , N ( N + 1) / 2 one-dimensional in tegrals, with N = [ n/ 2] . F or instane, the singularities of the four-dimensional in tegral Φ (5) H iden tify with those of, at most, three one-dimensional in tegrals. This app ears, simply , from the ouple of in tegers in (28 ) whi h read (2 p 1 , n − 2 p 2 − 2 p 1 ) . F or xed n , when p 2 v aries, one sees that w e are in fat onsidering all the lo w er in teger v alues n − 2 p 2 . The same situation holds for (29 ). This iden tiation leads, ob viously , to partiular strutures in the singularities for dieren t n . This is what w e sho w in the sequel. 2.3. Singularity strutur es of n -fold inte gr als and p artiular sets of one-dimensional inte gr als The Landau singularities giv en in App endix E are  he k ed against the singularities of the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) H ( n = 3 , · · · , 6 ), and ar e found to b e identi al . Assume that these form ulae do indeed repro due all the singularities of the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) H , for an y n . In this ase, w e an  he k whether the singularities app earing at n = m also o ur for n = m + 1 , n = m + 2 , · · · W e ha v e found that the singularities at order 2 n will also b e singularities at order 2 n + 2 p , where p is a p ositiv e in teger. Similarly , the singularities at order 2 n + 1 will also b e presen t at the follo wing o dd orders. What is remark able is the fat that the singularities at o dd order also app ear at ev en orders. The rule is: al l the singularities at o dd or der n also app e ar in the higher or ders (o dd and even) ex ept for the rst ( n − 1) / 2 even or ders . F or instane, the singularities app earing at n = 3 will o ur for all n , exept the rst ev en order, i.e. 4 . The singularities app earing at n = 5 will o ur for all n , exept the rst t w o ev en orders, i.e. 6 and 8 . The onsequene of this emb e dding of the singularities is the o urrene of some singularities at pr e dene d or ders . The singularit y 1 + 2 w = 0 is presen t at any or der n . The singularit y 1 − 2 w = 0 is presen t for an y ev en order 2 n . The singularit y 1 + w = 0 o urs at an y order n ≥ 5 . The singularit y 1 − w = 0 o urs at an y order n , exept for n = 4 . All these singularities are Ni k elian. The rst non Ni k elian singularit y 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 app e ars at al l or ders n , exept for n = 4 . Moreo v er, w e ha v e giv en in [ 7℄ the Landau singularities for the (linear ODEs of the) in tegrals Φ ( n ) D . These singularities ha v e b een found to b e iden tial with the singularities of the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) D obtained exatly up to n = 8 and mo dulo a prime up to n = 1 4 . W e ha v e seen that all the singularities of the linear ODE of Φ ( n ) D in the v ariable s lie in the ann ulus dened b y t w o onen tri irles of radius √ 2 and 1 / √ 2 . The radii of the t w o onen tri irles are the ro ots, in the v ariable s , of the p olynomial 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 , that is s 2 + s + 2 = 0 and 1 + s + 2 s 2 = 0 . With the m ultiple in tegrals Φ ( n ) H , one sees that some of the singularities ar e not  onne d to this ann ulus an ymore. Thanks to the Landau onditions, one an no w understand this struture from the redution of the m ultiple in tegrals Φ ( n ) H to a set of one-dimensional in tegrals Φ ( n ) k as far as the lo ation of singularities is onerned. F or k = 0 , whi h orresp onds to the Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 15 Ni k elian singularities, the ann ulus is the unit irle. F or k = 1 orresp onding to the in tegrals Φ ( n ) D , one has the ann ulus of radii √ 2 and its in v erse. F or ea h k , one exp ets the singularities to lie in an ann ulus with a onen tri struture. F or these ann uli the larger radius inreases (smaller radius dereases) as k inreases. F rom the redution of the singularities of Φ ( n ) H to these Φ ( n ) k , all the singularities for xed p 1 = k in (28 ) and for xed p 1 = k in (29 ) will b e onned to one ann ulus. F or instane for k = 2 , all the singularities o urring in the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) k , (i.e. for all n ), or, equiv alen tly , all the singularities obtained b y ( 28 ) for p 1 = 1 and b y (29 ) for p 1 = 2 will b e onned to the ann ulus of radii 2 . 79 · · · and its in v erse. This v alue is the ro ot, in the v ariable s , of 1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3 = 0 o urring for Φ (5) H . F or k = 3 , one remarks that the ann ulus will not b e obtained from (28) whi h is restrited b y 2 p 1 , an ev en in teger. In fat this is general. The radii of the ann uli are giv en b y (28 ) for k ev en and b y ( 29 ) for k o dd. The ro ot in the v ariable s that will dene the ann ulus o urs at o dd order n giv en b y 2 k + 1 . The piture no w, is as follo ws. The singularities of the linear ODE for the in tegrals Φ ( n ) H are partionned in to families indexed b y the in teger k . The singularities for k = 0 are Ni k elian and lie on the unit irle, sa y , r 0 = 1 . The singularities for k = 1 lie in the ann ulus r 1 = √ 2 , 1 / √ 2 (w e disard from no w on, the smaller radius). The singularities for k = 2 will b e onned in the ann ulus r 2 . The singularities for k = N will b e in the ann ulus r N . These onen tri ann uli are su h that r 0 < r 2 < · · · < r 2 N and r 1 < r 3 < · · · < r 2 N +1 , (with r 2 k < r 2 k +1 ). As k gro ws, the radii of t w o neigh b oring irles b eha v e as r 2 k +2 − r 2 k → 0 and r 2 k +3 − r 2 k +1 → 0 . This derease is not enough to reate an aum ulation of irles. W e  he k ed with k = 300 irles that the derease go es as k − α with α < 1 prev en ting an y on v ergene. F or n large these radii div erge: r N → ∞ when N → ∞ . Note that these families, (i.e. the index k ) ome from the resolution of the Landau onditions and from the redution of the singularities for Φ ( n ) H to the ones of Φ ( n ) k , ( k = 0 , 1 , · · · [ n/ 2] ). W e ha v e no idea as to ho w these families an b e seen diretly from the m utiple in tegrals Φ ( n ) H . If the singularities for Φ ( n ) H happ en to b e iden tial with those o urring in the linear ODE for χ ( n ) , it ma y b eome imp ortan t to see whether this piture p ersists and whether this piture is sho wing another partition of the suseptibilit y χ instead of the kno wn sum on χ ( n ) . Figure 5, 6 and 7 sho w ho w the rst family of singularities (28 ) in the s omplex plane is deomp osed aording to the in teger k in (34 ). Figure 5 sho ws singularities (28) for a given o dd value of k , namely k = 5 for any o dd values of n up to 91 . Figure 6 sho ws singularities (28) for a giv en ev en v alue of k , namely k = 2 for an y o dd v alues of n up to 71 . Figure 7 sho ws singularities (28 ) for a giv en ev en v alue of k , namely k = 6 for an y ev en v alues of n up to 80 . The gures orresp onding to the ltration of the singularities of the rst family (28 ) in terms of the in teger k (previously displa y ed altogether with gures 1 and 2 ) deserv e some ommen ts. First, one sees that the v arious resen t orresp onding to dieren t v alues of k are v ery similar. Seondly one sees from gure 5 that the o dd n , o dd k resen t break the s ↔ − s symmetry (for ev en n , ev en k , the equations for the set of singularities are funtions of s 2 , see gure 7 ) in a quite dramati w a y: the singularities in the resen t of gure 5 all lie only in the left half s -omplex plane. Similarly the singularities in the resen t of gure 6 all lie in the righ t half s -omplex plane. Along this s ↔ − s symmetry line it is w orth realling that the lo w-temp erature Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 16 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 Figure 5. Cresen t in the omplex s plane giv en b y ( 28 ): k = 5 , n ≤ 91 , n o dd. –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 Figure 6. Cresen t in the omplex s plane giv en b y ( 28 ): k = 2 , n ≤ 71 , n o dd. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 17 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 –1 –0.5 0 0.5 1 Figure 7. Cresen t in the omplex s plane giv en b y ( 28 ): k = 6 , n ≤ 80 , n ev en. suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del has this s ↔ − s symmetry (the lo w-temp erature suseptibilit y is a funtion of s 2 or w 2 ) but the high-temp erature suseptibilit y breaks that s ↔ − s symmetry , and this is also the ase for the n -fold in tegral χ ( n ) with n o dd. Our n -fold in tegrals (8) are in tro dued to pro vide an eduated guess as to the lo ation of the singularities of the χ ( n ) . As far as lo ation of singularities of the χ ( n ) are onerned, it is not totally lear for n o dd if the s ↔ − s (resp. w ↔ − w ) symmetry will not b e partially restored on the global set of singularities with the o urene for a singularit y P n ( w ) = 0 for a giv en v alue of n , of the opp osite v alue for, p erhaps, a dieren t v alue of n : P m ( − w ) = 0 . Remark: Quite often, in this pap er, w e use (b y abuse of language) the w ords singularities of an n -fold in tegral to desrib e a larger set of singularities, namely the singularities of the linear ODEs that the n -fold in tegral satises. A rigorous study w ould require, for an y singularit y, to p erform the (dieren tial Galois group and onnetion matrix) analysis w e ha v e p erformed in [6 ℄. It amoun ts to getting extremely large series, dedued from the obtained linear ODE, that oinide with the series expansion of the n -fold in tegral w e are in terested in, and nd out if these series atually exhibit these singularities. With this tedious, but straigh tforw ard, pro edure w e an extrat the singularities of a sp ei n -fold in tegral among the larger set of singularities of the orresp onding linear dieren tial equation. In view of the large n um b er of singularities w e displa y in this pap er, w e ha v e not p erformed su h a systemati analysis, that w ould ha v e b een quite h uge. F urthermore it is imp ortan t to note that this onnetion matrix approa h [6℄ requires to ha v e the linear ODE of the n -fold in tegral. A kno wledge of the linear ODE mo dulo a prime is not suient . W e ould ha v e p erformed this analysis for Φ (3) H and Φ (4) H , but, in that ase, w e already Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 18 ha v e a deep er result [6℄ namely the onnetion matrix analysis for χ (3) and χ (4) , pro viding an understanding of the singularities of these n -fold in tegrals themselv es (in w and also in s ). Righ t no w, the only singularities found for the χ ( n ) , other than Ni k elian, are the quadrati ro ots of 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 , (i.e. the rst ann ulus) whi h app ear at all orders (exept n = 4 for Φ ( n ) H ). Let us sho w, in the sequel, ho w this p olynomial an b e sp eial. 3. T o w ards a mathematial in terpretation of the singularities In a set of pap ers [ 19 , 20 ℄, w e ha v e underlined the en tral role pla y ed b y the el lipti p ar ametrization of the Ising mo del, in partiular the role pla y ed b y the seond order linear dieren tial op erators orresp onding to the omplete ellipti in tegral E (or K ), and the o urrene of an innite n um b er of mo dular urves [ 12 ℄, anonially asso iated with el lipti urves . The deep link b et w een the theory of ellipti urv es and the theory of mo dular forms is no w w ell established [21 ℄. Consequen tly , it ma y b e in teresting to seek sp eial v alues of the mo dulus k , (singularities of the χ ( n ) ) that migh t ha v e a ph ysial meaning, as w ell as a mathematial in terpretation. F or that purp ose, reall that the mo dular group requires one to in tro due the ellipti nome, dened in terms of the p erio ds of the ellipti funtions, q = exp  − π K (1 − k 2 ) K ( k 2 )  = exp( i π τ ) (45) and the half p erio d ratio ¶ τ . W e write the omplete ellipti in tegral K as K ( k ) = 2 F 1  1 / 2 , 1 / 2 ; 1; k  . (46) Relations b et w een K ( k ) ev aluated at t w o dieren t mo duli an b e found in, e.g. [ 22 ℄. 3.1. Some iso genies of el lipti urves se en as gener ators of the r enormalization gr oup The argumen ts in K in these iden tities are related b y the so-alled, resp etiv ely , desending Landen and asending Landen (or Gauss) transformations: k − → k − 1 = 1 − √ 1 − k 2 1 + √ 1 − k 2 (47) k − → k 1 = 2 √ k 1 + k (48) These transformations (or orresp ondenes [23 , 24 ℄), derease or inrease the mo dulus resp etiv ely . Iterating (47 ) or (48 ), one on v erges to k = 0 or k = 1 resp etiv ely . The half p erio d ratio transforms through ( 47), (48 ), as τ → 2 τ , τ → 1 2 τ (49) resp etiv ely . The r e al xed p oin ts of the transformations (47 ) and ( 48 ) are k = 0 (the trivial innite or zero temp erature p oin ts) and k = 1 (the ferromagneti and ¶ In the theory of mo dular forms q 2 is also sometimes used instead of q . In n um b er theory literature the half-p erio d ratio is tak en as − i τ . Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 19 an tiferromagneti ritial p oin t of the square Ising mo del). In terms of the half p erio d ratio, this reads τ = ∞ and τ = 0 resp etiv ely , whi h  orr esp ond to a de gener ation of the el lipti p ar ametrization into a r ational p ar ametrization . In view of these xed p oin ts, it is natural to iden tify the transformations (47 ) or (48), and more generally an y transformation § τ → n · τ or τ → τ / n ( n in teger), as exat gener ators of the r enormalization gr oup of the t w o-dimensional Ising mo del ‡ . One do es not need to restrit the analysis to the real xed p oin ts of the transformations. If one onsiders the Landen transformation ( 48 ) as an algebrai transformation of the  omplex variable k and if one solv es k 2 1 − k 2 = 0 , one obtains: k · (1 − k ) · ( k 2 + 3 k + 4) = 0 . (50) The quadrati ro ots k 2 + 3 k + 4 = 0 , (51) are (up to a sign) xe d p oints of (48). W e th us see the o urrene of additional non-trivial  omplex sele te d values of the mo dulus k , b ey ond the w ell-kno wn v alues k = 1 , 0 , ∞ (orresp onding to degeneration of the ellipti urv e in to a r ational urve ). Ph ysially , these w ell-kno wn v alues k = 1 , 0 , ∞ orresp ond to the riti al Ising mo del ( k = 1 ) and to (high-lo w temp erature) trivializations of the mo del ( k = 0 , ∞ ). 3.2. Complex multipli ation for el lipti urves as ( omplex) xe d p oints of the r enormalization gr oup W e ome no w to our p oin t. The rst unexp eted singularities 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 found [4 , 5℄ for the F u hsian linear dieren tial equation of χ (3) , and also in other n -fold in tegrals of the Ising lass [7 ℄, reads in the v ariable k = s 2 as ( k 2 + 3 k + 4) (4 k 2 + 3 k + 1) = 0 . (52) The rst p olynomial ‡ orresp onds to xe d p oints of the Landen transformation (see (50)). In other w ords w e see that the seleted quadrati v alues 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 , o urring in the (high-temp erature) suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del as singularities of the three-partile term χ (3) , an b e seen as xe d p oints of the r enormalization gr oup when extende d to  omplex values of the mo dulus k . F or ellipti urv es in elds of  harateristi zero, the only w ell-kno wn seleted set of v alues for k orresp onds to the v alues for whi h the ellipti urv e has  omplex multipli ation [26 ℄. Complex m ultipliation for ellipti urv es orresp onds to algebrai in teger v alues (in tegers in the ase of the Heegner n um b ers, see App endix F) of the mo dular j -funtion, whi h orresp onds to Klein's absolute in v arian t m ultiplied b y (12) 3 = 1728 : j ( k ) = 256 ·  1 − k 2 + k 4  3 k 4 · (1 − k 2 ) 2 . (53) A straigh tforw ard alulation of the ellipti nome (45 ) giv es, for the p olynomials (52), resp etiv ely , an exat v alue for τ , the half p erio d ratio, as v ery simple quadr ati numb ers : τ 1 = ± 3 + i √ 7 4 , τ 2 = ± 1 + i √ 7 2 (54) § See relation (1.3) in [25℄. ‡ A similar iden tiation of these isogenies τ → n · τ with exat generators of the renormalization group an b e in tro dued for an y lattie mo del with an ellipti parametrization (Baxter mo del, ...). ‡ Note that the t w o p olynomials in (52 ) are related b y the Kramers-W annier dualit y k → 1 /k . Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 20 These quadrati n um b ers atually orresp ond to  omplex multipli ation of the ellipti urv e and for b oth one has j = ( − 1 5 ) 3 . These t w o quadrati n um b ers are su h that 2 τ 1 ∓ 1 = τ 2 . Let us fo us on τ 2 for whi h w e an write: τ = 1 − 2 τ . (55) T aking in to aoun t the t w o mo dular group in v olutions τ → 1 − τ and τ → 1 /τ , w e nd that 1 − 2 /τ is, up to the mo dular gr oup , equiv alen t to τ / 2 . The quadrati relation τ 2 − τ + 2 = 0 th us amoun ts to lo oking at the xed p oin ts of the Landen transformation τ → 2 τ up to the mo dular gr oup . This is, in fat a quite general statemen t. The  omplex multipli ation v alues an all b e seen as xed p oin ts, up to the mo dular gr oup , of the generalizations of Landen transformation, namely τ → n τ for n in teger, τ 2 − τ + n = 0 or τ = 1 − n τ ≃ n · τ , where ≃ denotes the equiv alene up to the mo dular gr oup . App endix G presen ts an alternativ e view b y onsidering the solutions as xed p oin ts under Landen transformations of the mo dular j − funtion. In view of the remark able mathematial (and ph ysial) in terpretation of the quadrati v alues 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 in terms of  omplex multipli ation for el lipti urves, or xe d p oints of the r enormalization gr oup , it is natural to see if su h a omplex m ultipliation of ellipti urv es in terpretation also exists for other singularities of χ ( n ) , and as a rst step, for the singularities of the linear dieren tial equations of our n -fold in tegrals (8), that w e exp et to b e iden tial, or at least ha v e some o v erlap, with the singularities of the χ ( n ) . Noting that the mo dular j − funtion is a funtion of s 2 or w 2 (see (F.2) in App endix F) the o urene of 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 as a seleted quadrati p olynomial ondition means, at the same time, the o urene of the other quadrati p olynomial ondition 1 − 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 (see App endix F and App endix G.2). Besides 1 − 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 , w e ha v e found t w o other p olynomial onditions whi h orresp ond to remark able in teger v alues of the mo dular j -funtion. The singularities 1 − 8 w 2 = 0 orresp ond to j = (12) 3 and τ = ± 1 + i (see App endix F). They orresp ond to Ni k elian singularities for χ (8) (and th us Φ (8) H ) and to non-Ni k elian singularities for Φ (10) H . Another p olynomial ondition is 1 − 32 w 2 = 0 , whi h giv es non-Ni k elian singularities that b egin to app ear at n = 10 for Φ (10) H . These singularities orresp ond to the in teger v alue of the mo dular j -funtion, j = (66) 3 and to τ = 2 i or τ = − 4 / 5 + 2 i/ 5 . 3.3. Beyond el lipti urves Among the singularities of the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) H giv en in ( 12 ), (13 ) or obtained from the form ula giv en in App endix E up to n = 1 5 , w e ha v e found no other singularit y iden tied with seleted algebrai v alues of the mo dular j -funtion orresp onding to omplex m ultipliation for ellipti urv es. Could it b e that the (non-Ni k elian) singularities (12 ), (13 ), whi h do not mat h with omplex m ultipliation for ellipti urv es, are atually remark able seleted situations for mathematial strutures more omplex than ellipti urv es ? With these new singularities, are w e p ossibly exploring some remark able seleted situations of some mo duli sp a e of urves  orr esp onding to p ointe d (marke d) urves [27 ℄, instead of simple ellipti urv es [ 28 ℄? In pratie this just orresp onds to onsidering a pro dut of n times a rational, or ellipti, urv e Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 21 min us some sets of remark able o dimension-one algebrai v arieties [11 ℄, x i x j = 1 , x i x j x k = 1 , h yp erplanes x i = x j , · · · W e try to fully understand the singularities of the n -fold in tegrals orresp onding to the χ ( n ) , that is to sa y partiular n -fold in tegrals link ed to the theory of ellipti urv es. These n -fold in tegrals are more in v olv ed than the (simpler) n -fold in tegrals in tro dued b y Beuk ers, V asily ev [ 29, 30 ℄ and Sorokin [31, 32 ℄, or the Gon haro v-Manin in tegrals [33 ℄ whi h o ur in some mo duli sp a e of urves [34 , 35 ℄ simply orresp onding to a pr o dut of r ational urves ( C P 1 × C P 1 · · · × C P 1 ). An example of su h in tegrals, link ed ¶ to ζ (3) , is displa y ed ♯ in App endix H . Let us lose this setion b y noting that Heegner n um b ers and, more generally ,  omplex multipli ation ha v e already o urred in other on texts, ev en if the statemen t w as not expliit. In the framew ork of the onstrution of Liouville eld theory , Gerv ais and Nev eu ha v e suggested [41 ℄ new lasses of ritial statistial mo dels, where, b esides the w ell-kno wn N -th ro ot of unit y situation, they found the follo wing seleted v alues of the multipli ative r ossing t [42℄: t = e i π (1+ i √ 3) / 2 = i · e − π √ 3 / 2 , (56) t = e i π (1+ i ) = − e − π . (57) If one w an ts to see this m ultipliativ e rossing as a mo dular nome, the t w o previous situations atually orresp ond to seleted v alues of the mo dular j -funtion namely j ((1 + i √ 3) / 2) = (0) 3 for (56 ), and j (1 + i ) = (12) 3 for (57), whi h atually orresp ond to He e gner numb ers and, mor e gener al ly,  omplex multipli ation [26 ℄. It is ho w ev er imp ortan t not to feed the onfusion already to o prev alan t in the literature, b et w een a temp er atur e-like nome su h as (45 ) and a multipli ative r ossing mo dular nome . In the Baxter mo del [43 , 44 ℄, the rst is denoted b y q and the seond one b y x . In fat one probably has, not one, but two mo dular gr oups taking plae, one ating on the temp erature-lik e nome q and the other ating on the m ultipliativ e rossing x . W e will not go further along this quite sp eulativ e line whi h amoun ts to in tro duing el lipti quantum gr oups [45 ℄ and el lipti gamma funtions † (generalization of theta funtions †† ). 4. Conlusion The ultimate goal of our Ising lass in tegrals is to get some insigh t in to the χ ( n ) and, hop efully , in to the suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del. F or that purp ose w e ha v e in tro dued n -fold in tegrals (8 ) su h that w e exp et the singularities of the orresp onding linear ODE to o v erlap, as m u h as p ossible, with the singularities of the linear ODE for the χ ( n ) . W e ha v e obtained the linear dieren tial equations for ¶ Note that ζ (or the p olyzeta) funtion ev aluated at in teger v alues ( ζ (3) , ζ (5) , ...) do o ur in our more in v olv ed n -fold in tegrals, in partiular in the represen tation of the onnetion matries [6℄ of the dieren tial Galois group of the F u hsian linear ODEs of χ ( n ) . ♯ These n -fold in tegrals [36, 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 ℄ lo ok almost the same as the ones w e ha v e in tro dued and analyzed in the study of the diagonal suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del [11 ℄ for whi h n -th ro ot of unit y singularities o ur. † Whi h an b e seen [46℄ as automorphi forms of degree 1 when the Jaobi mo dular forms are automorphi forms of degree 0 and are asso iated (up to simple semi-diret pro duts) with S L (3 , Z ) instead of S L (2 , Z ) †† The partition funtion of the Baxter mo del an b e seen as a ratio and pro dut of ellipti gamma funtions and theta funtions. It is th us naturally expressed as a double innite pro dut. Similar double, and ev en triple, pro duts app ear in orrelation funtions of the eigh t v ertex mo del [47, 48℄. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 22 these n -fold in tegrals Φ ( n ) H , up to n = 4 and up to n = 6 mo dulo a prime. F rom these exat results together with an exhaustiv e Landau singularit y analysis, w e pro vided a quite omplete desription of the singularities of these linear ODEs. F rom the Landau onditions, the singularit y strutures are explained. The singularities orresp onding to Φ ( n ) H are found to also o ur at a higher predened order p > n . With these m ultiple in tegrals and the asso iated Landau onditions, w e ha v e b een able to understand wh y the simple in tegrals Φ ( n ) D ha v e sueeded repro duing the Ni k elian singularities and the new quadrati 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 . These simple in tegrals app ear to b e "a rst appro ximation" to Φ ( n ) H . Other one-dimensional in tegrals p op up to aoun t for the additional singularities not o urring for Φ ( n ) D . W e ha v e then a remark able nding that, the singularities for the m ultiple in tegrals an b e asso iated with the singularities for a nite n um b er of one dimensional in tegrals. If the singularities, asso iated with these n -fold in tegrals ( 8), happ en to b e iden tial with (or to o v erlap) the singularities asso iated with the χ ( n ) , it b eomes imp ortan t to understand this me hanism for the χ ( n ) themselv es. If this me hanism of singularit y em b edding o urs for χ ( n ) , it migh t b e explained b y a Russian doll struture for the same linear dieren tial op erators. W e kno w that the linear dieren tial op erator for χ (1) (resp etiv ely χ (2) ) is on tained in (righ tdivides) the linear dieren tial op erator for χ (3) (resp etiv ely χ (4) ), and furthermore w e ev en ha v e diret sum deomp osition prop erties. F or the Φ ( n ) H , it is not these me hanisms whi h are at w ork. Our primary goal in this study is to iden tify as man y singularities as p ossible for the χ ( n ) . The singularities of the ODEs asso iated with the Φ ( n ) H quan tities orresp ond, in the Landau equations framew ork, to le ading pinh singularities (relativ ely to the singularities manifolds D ( φ, ψ ) = 0 ). F or the other quan tities previously studied [7℄ whi h b elong to the Ising lass in tegrals, the same feature holds. A t this step, the natural questions arising are: whether the s heme, from the Landau singularities p oin t of view, whi h holds for Φ ( n ) H , still holds for χ ( n ) and whether the singularities of Φ ( n ) H an b e onsidered as singularities of the χ ( n ) ? F rom the Landau singularities viewp oin t, the F ermioni determinan t G ( n ) 2 is going to in tro due new manifolds of singularities. When the Lagrange m ultipliers relativ e to the singularities manifolds in tro dued b y the F ermioni determinan t are all set equal to zero, one deals with the Landau equations of the Φ ( n ) H quan tities. Th us the singularities obtained for the Φ ( n ) H quan tities are also solutions of the Landau equations of the χ ( n ) . Ho w ev er this feature do es not mean that the singularities of the Φ ( n ) H quan tities will neessarly app ear as singularities of the χ ( n ) ODEs. Indeed some seletion rules ma y tak e plae and ma y rejet some of them. F or instane, one exp ets singularities link ed to the Q y i to o ur for the Landau singularities of the Φ ( n ) H . One nds that some seletion rules exlude them. Our eduated guess is that all the Landau singularities of the Φ ( n ) H will b e in the Landau singularities of the χ ( n ) , ho w ev er w e do not exlude the p ossibilit y that the χ ( n ) will ha v e more Landau singularities than the Φ ( n ) H . Another eduated guess is that the Landau singularities of the χ ( n ) will exhibit a similar em b edding that the one w e found for the Φ ( n ) H . This naturally raises the question already onsidered in [ 8 ℄, of a strong Russian doll struture for the linear dieren tial op erators of the χ ( n ) , namely that the linear dieren tial op erator of χ (3) (resp. χ (4) ) ould righ t-divide the linear dieren tial op erator of χ (5) (resp. χ (6) ), and so on. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 23 This kno wledge of the singularities will help in the sear h for the orresp onding linear ODE. F or instane, w e ha v e 24 head p olynomial andidates for χ (5) and 19 andidates for χ (6) that an, from the outset, b e put in fron t of the higher order deriv ativ e of the unkno wn linear ODE. F rom the kno wledge w e ha v e gained from all these n -fold in tegrals of the Ising lass, one an guess the order of magnitude of the m ultipliit y of some singularities. F urthermore, as sho wn for the linear ODE for Φ (5) H and Φ (6) H (and also from previous ODEs), w e kno w that the ost (in terms of the n um b er of series o eien ts) will b e m u h less for a non minimal order linear ODE than for the minimal order one. Conerning the non Ni k elian singularities that the m ultiple in tegrals Φ ( n ) H ha v e giv en, w e fo ussed on 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 whi h atually o urs for the linear ODE of χ (3) , or for χ (3) seen as a funtion of s . As far as a mathemati al interpr etation is onerned, w e ha v e sho wn that this quadrati p olynomial ondition orresp onds to a seleted situation for ellipti urv es namely the o  urr en e of  omplex multipli ation . The other non-Ni k elian (andidate) singularities, (12), (13 ) do not  orr esp ond to omplex m ultipliation of ellipti urv es. Assuming that the non Ni k elian singularities obtained in the linear ODE for the in tegrals (8), will b e, at least, inluded in those for the χ ( n ) , v arious lines of though t are p ossible. One ma y imagine that the deomp osition of the suseptibilit y of the Ising mo del in terms of an innite sum of χ ( n ) is quite an artiial one with no deep mathematial meaning, i.e. χ ( n ) are quite arbitrary n -fold in tegrals. In this ase, no in terpretation within the theory of ellipti urv es has to b e lo ok ed for and the o urrene for 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 of omplex m ultipliation for ellipti urv es w ould b e just a oinidene. Another option amoun ts to sa ying that one needs to in tro due (motivi) mathematial strutures [36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 ℄ b eyond the the ory of el lipti urves (mo duli spaes, mark ed urv es, ...), and b ey ond the ellipti urv es of the Ising (or Baxter) mo del, to get a mathemati al interpr etation of these singularities . W e tend to fa v our the latter option. A  kno wledgmen ts: W e ha v e deriv ed great b enet from disussions on v arious asp ets of this w ork with F. Ch yzak, S. Fis hler, P . Fla jolet, A. J. Guttmann, L. Merel, B. Ni k el, I. Jensen, B. Salvy and J-A. W eil. W e thank A. Bostan for a sear h of linear ODE mo d. prime with one of his Magma programs. W e a kno wledge CNRS/PICS nanial supp ort. One of us (NZ) w ould lik e to a kno wledge the kind hospitalit y at the LPTMC where part of this w ork has b een ompleted. One of us (JMM) thanks MASCOS (Melb ourne) where part of this w ork w as p erformed. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 24 App endix A. Series expansions of Φ ( n ) H and of single in tegrals Φ ( n ) k W e giv e in this App endix, the series expansion that has b een used for Φ ( n ) H . Expanding the in tegrand of (8) in the v ariables x j , one obtains Φ ( n ) H = 1 n ! · n − 1 Y j =1 Z 2 π 0 dφ j 2 π · ∞ X p =0 (2 − δ p, 0 ) · n Y j =1 y j x p j . (A.1) W e mak e use of the y j x p j F ourier expansion [4 , 5, 8℄ y j x p j = w p · ∞ X k = −∞ w | k | · a ( p, | k | ) · Z k j , Z j = exp( i φ j ) (A.2) where a ( k , p ) is a non-terminating h yp ergeometri funtion that reads (with m = k + p ): a ( k , p ) =  m k  × (A.3) 4 F 3  1 + m 2 , 1 + m 2 , 2 + m 2 , 2 + m 2 ; 1 + k , 1 + p, 1 + m ; 16 w 2  . W e dene h ρ i b y h ρ i =  n Y j =1 Z 2 π 0 dφ j 2 π  · 2 π δ   n X j =1 φ j   · ρ (A.4) where the angular onstrain t is in tro dued through the delta funtion that has the F ourier expansion: 2 π δ   n X j =1 φ j   = ∞ X k = −∞ ( Z 1 Z 2 · · · Z n ) k (A.5) The in tegrals (A.1) b eome Φ ( n ) H = 1 n ! · ∞ X k = −∞ ∞ X p =0 (2 − δ p, 0 ) · h n Y j =1 y j x p j Z k j i (A.6) where the in tegration is o v er indep enden t angles. Using the F ourier expansion (A.2), one obtains the in tegration rule h y j x p j Z k j i = w p + | k | · a ( p, | k | ) (A.7) and nally: Φ ( n ) H = 1 n ! · ∞ X k =0 ∞ X p =0 (2 − δ k, 0 ) · (2 − δ p, 0 ) · w n ( k + p ) · a n ( k , p ) . (A.8) The deriv ation of the series expansions for the one dimensional in tegrals ( 37 ) pro eeds along similar lines. The in tegrand of the in tegrals (37) is expanded in x 1 1 − x n − k ( φ ) · x k ( φ n ) = ∞ X p =0 x p ( n − k ) ( φ ) x p k ( φ n ) (A.9) with φ n = − n − k k · φ + 2 π j k . (A.10) Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 25 Here, w e use the F ourier expansion x m = w m · ∞ X p =0 (2 − δ p, 0 ) · w p · b ( p, m ) · co s( p φ ) (A.11) where b ( k , p ) is a non-terminating h yp ergeometri funtion that reads (with m = k + p ): b ( k , p ) =  m − 1 k  × (A.12) 4 F 3  1 + m 2 , 1 + m 2 , 2 + m 2 , m 2 ; 1 + k , 1 + p, 1 + m ; 16 w 2  . The in tegration of the one-dimensional in tegrals (A.9) giv es Φ ( n ) k = h 1 1 − x n − k ( φ ) · x k ( φ n ) i = ∞ X p =0 ∞ X p 1 =0 ∞ X p 2 =0 (2 − δ p 1 , 0 ) · (2 − δ p 2 , 0 ) × w pn + p 1 + p 2 · b ( p 1 , p ( n − k )) · b ( p 2 , p k ) I ( p 1 , p 2 ) (A.13) with I ( p 1 , p 2 ) = 1 2 · (1 + δ p 1 , 0 ) · cos ( c ) , for p 2 · ( n − k ) = k · p 1 , and I ( p 1 , p 2 ) = 1 π b 2 b 2 − p 2 1 · sin( b π ) · cos( b π − c ) , for p 2 · ( n − k ) 6 = k · p 1 , where b = n − k k · p 2 , c = 2 π j k · p 2 . (A.14) App endix B. Linear dieren tial equations of some Φ ( n ) H App endix B.1. Line ar ODE for Φ (3) H The minimal order linear dieren tial equation satised b y Φ (3) H reads 5 X n =0 a n ( w ) · d n dw n F ( w ) = 0 , (B.1) where a 5 ( w ) = (1 − w ) (1 − 4 w ) 4 (1 + 4 w ) 2 (1 + 2 w ) × (1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 ) · w 3 · P 5 ( w ) , (B.2) a 4 ( w ) = (1 − 4 w ) 3 (1 + 4 w ) · w 2 · P 4 ( w ) , a 3 ( w ) = − 2 (1 − 4 w ) 2 · w P 3 ( w ) , a 2 ( w ) = 2 (1 − 4 w ) · P 2 ( w ) , a 1 ( w ) = − 8 P 1 ( w ) , a 0 ( w ) = − 96 P 0 ( w ) , with P 5 ( w ) = − 5 + 21 w + 428 w 2 + 5364 w 3 − 8241 6 w 4 − 2995 04 w 5 + 7149 44 w 6 + 3127 872 w 7 − 8220 672 w 8 − 2585 8048 w 9 − 7077 888 w 10 + 3142 4512 w 11 − 4246 7328 w 12 Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 26 − 3145 7280 w 13 − 4194 304 w 14 + 4194 304 w 15 , P 4 ( w ) = − 40 + 7 w + 523 2 w 2 + 3715 9 w 3 − 4477 78 w 4 − 4947 500 w 5 + 1949 3448 w 6 + 2584 64112 w 7 + 4992 05984 w 8 − 1612 751808 w 9 − 4667 817856 w 10 + 1382 745907 2 w 11 + 6707 841638 4 w 12 + 6239 204147 2 w 13 − 8153 536921 6 w 14 − 1168 354836 48 w 15 + 1246 620549 12 w 16 + 1460 163051 52 w 17 − 1972 581171 20 w 18 − 1316 675911 68 w 19 − 1167 694233 6 w 20 + 1503 238553 6 w 21 , P 3 ( w ) = 35 − 25 w − 868 3 w 2 − 1014 9 w 3 + 6192 46 w 4 + 52 73820 w 5 − 5247 2072 w 6 − 5881 47792 w 7 + 4910 73248 w 8 + 1872 181958 4 w 9 + 4762 277158 4 w 10 − 9745 963059 2 w 11 − 4414 185881 60 w 12 + 6510 035599 36 w 13 + 4694 018588 672 w 14 + 4729 946636 288 w 15 − 7193 770328 064 w 16 − 1181 451970 1504 w 17 + 7399 599505 408 w 18 + 1098 199649 4848 w 19 − 1643 952419 6352 w 20 − 1043 462304 5632 w 21 − 9169 755176 96 w 22 + 1125 281431 552 w 23 , P 2 ( w ) = − 10 + 101 w + 1108 8 w 2 − 4285 5 w 3 − 1117 278 w 4 − 1918 516 w 5 + 7222 1464 w 6 + 4600 80656 w 7 − 4999 186016 w 8 − 3347 442822 4 w 9 + 6744 020032 0 w 10 + 8085 605585 92 w 11 + 5351 666933 76 w 12 − 6771 457933 312 w 13 − 7468 556451 840 w 14 + 4614 351447 6544 w 15 + 9148 886312 5504 w 16 − 7510 773307 8016 w 17 − 2394 386637 78304 w 18 + 3190 472835 0720 w 19 + 2340 588061 98272 w 20 − 2374 461932 17536 w 21 − 1641 815673 40544 w 22 − 1897 516551 3728 w 23 + 1697 371075 3792 w 24 , P 1 ( w ) = − 5 − 11 4 2 w + 8106 w 2 + 2108 46 w 3 − 1070 376 w 4 − 7771 160 w 5 − 2202 9952 w 6 + 8338 94752 w 7 + 3334 510976 w 8 − 3973 644992 0 w 9 − 1561 018593 28 w 10 + 6633 067182 08 w 11 + 2995 615555 584 w 12 − 5033 154314 240 w 13 − 2625 078598 0416 w 14 + 2861 806675 5584 w 15 + 1580 477752 27904 w 16 − 4283 621703 6800 w 17 − 4103 176202 48576 w 18 − 9592 507465 7280 w 19 + 4622 453183 61088 w 20 − 3289 901999 06304 w 21 − 2494 431106 17088 w 22 − 3527 027143 4752 w 23 + 2446 413371 8016 w 24 , P 0 ( w ) = − 5 + 58 w + 323 4 w 2 − 1899 4 w 3 − 2293 30 w 4 + 1516 w 5 + 7017 504 w 6 + 7468 9472 w 7 − 6470 69792 w 8 − 4260 373952 w 9 + 1588 716364 8 w 10 + 9678 961868 8 w 11 − 1361 205084 16 w 12 − 9177 651445 76 w 13 + 8779 966054 40 w 14 + 5646 695006 208 w 15 − 2888 887697 408 w 16 − 1678 515581 7472 w 17 − 5241 017729 024 w 18 + 1795 242642 6368 w 19 − 1305 831119 2576 w 20 − 9329 742708 736 w 21 − 1275 605286 912 w 22 + 8246 337208 32 w 23 . (B.3) Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 27 App endix B.2. Line ar ODE for Φ (4) H The minimal order linear dieren tial equation satised b y Φ (4) H reads (with x = 16 w 2 ) 6 X n =0 a n ( x ) · d n dx n F ( x ) = 0 , (B.4) where a 6 ( x ) = 64 ( x − 4) (1 − x ) 4 x 4 · P 6 ( x ) , a 5 ( x ) = − 128 (1 − x ) 3 x 3 · P 5 ( x ) , a 4 ( x ) = 16 (1 − x ) 2 x 2 · P 4 ( x ) , a 3 ( x ) = − 64 (1 − x ) x · P 3 ( x ) , a 2 ( x ) = − 4 · P 2 ( x ) , a 1 ( x ) = − 8 · P 1 ( x ) , a 0 ( x ) = − 3 (1 − x ) · P 0 ( x ) , with: P 6 ( x ) = 128 + 2 2 33 x − 284 7 x 2 + 3143 x 3 − 3601 x 4 + 144 x 5 − 64 x 6 , P 5 ( x ) = 3 7 12 + 51523 x − 2163 77 x 2 + 2899 18 x 3 − 3128 96 x 4 + 2621 11 x 5 − 6316 7 x 6 + 5512 x 7 − 896 x 8 , P 4 ( x ) = − 1 21856 − 110230 4 x + 1 103828 9 x 2 − 2610 6487 x 3 + 3151 5802 x 4 − 3102 7694 x 5 + 2129 1429 x 6 − 5166 011 x 7 + 4101 60 x 8 − 6777 6 x 9 , P 3 ( x ) = 3 8 144 + 10604 x − 464428 1 x 2 + 2090 9702 x 3 − 3789 0772 x 4 + 4201 1874 x 5 − 3755 2559 x 6 + 2247 4036 x 7 − 5465 572 x 8 + 3925 36 x 9 − 6598 4 x 10 , P 2 ( x ) = 1 6 3840 − 416268 8 x − 181201 52 x 2 + 2771 10610 x 3 − 8800 48289 x 4 + 1357 147519 x 5 − 1395 938590 x 6 + 1141 353668 x 7 − 6213 23833 x 8 + 1508 42795 x 9 − 9676 720 x 10 + 1656 512 x 11 , P 1 ( x ) = − 3 66592 + 311375 2 x + 1 746570 0 x 2 − 1206 58444 x 3 + 2403 21805 x 4 − 2592 77988 x 5 + 2199 51814 x 6 − 1423 14304 x 7 + 4253 4921 x 8 − 2056 040 x 9 + 4352 00 x 10 , P 0 ( x ) = 5 6 1152 − 149640 0 x − 131715 75 x 2 + 3084 0556 x 3 − 2438 1198 x 4 + 2035 2948 x 5 − 1326 8091 x 6 + 3093 60 x 7 − 1200 00 x 8 . App endix B.3. Line ar ODE mo dulo a prime for Φ (5) H The linear dieren tial equation of minimal order sev en teen satised b y Φ (5) H is of the form 17 X n =0 a n ( w ) · d n dw n F ( w ) = 0 , (B.5) with a 17 ( w ) = (1 − 4 w ) 12 (1 + 4 w ) 9 (1 − w ) 2 ( w + 1) (1 + 2 w ) ×  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2  2  1 − 3 w + w 2   1 + 2 w − 4 w 2  × (1 + 4 w + 8 w 2 )  1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3  ×  1 − w − 3 w 2 + 4 w 3   1 + 8 w + 20 w 2 + 15 w 3 + 4 w 4  · w 12 · P 17 ( w ) , Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 28 a 16 ( w ) = w 11 (1 − 4 w ) 11 (1 + 4 w ) 8 (1 − w )  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2  · P 16 ( w ) , a 15 ( w ) = w 10 (1 − 4 w ) 10 (1 + 4 w ) 7 · P 15 ( w ) , a 14 ( w ) = w 9 (1 − 4 w ) 9 (1 + 4 w ) 6 · P 14 ( w ) , · · · where the 430 ro ots of P 17 ( w ) are app ar ent singularities . The degrees of these p olynomials P n ( w ) are su h that the degrees of a i ( w ) are dereasing as: deg ( a i +1 ( w )) = deg ( a i ( w )) + 1 . In fat, with 2208 terms w e ha v e found the ODE of Φ ((5) H at order q = 28 using the follo wing ansatz for the linear ODE sear h ( D w denotes d/dw ) q X i =0 s ( i ) · p ( i ) · Dw i (B.6) with: s ( i ) = w α ( − 1+ i ) · (1 − 1 6 w 2 ) α ( − 1+ i ) · s α (1+ i − q ) 0 (B.7) where α ( n ) = M in (0 , n ) and s 0 = (1 + w ) · (1 − w ) · (1 + 2 w ) · (1 − 3 w + w 2 ) (1 + 2 w − 4 w 2 ) × (1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 ) · (1 + 4 w + 8 w 2 ) · (1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3 ) × (1 − w − 3 w 2 + 4 w 3 ) · (1 + 8 w + 20 w 2 + 15 w 3 + 4 w 4 ) the p ( i ) b eing the unkno wn p olynomials. The minimal order ODE is dedued from the set of linear indep endan t ODEs found at order 28. App endix B.4. Line ar ODE mo dulo a prime for Φ (6) H The linear dieren tial equation of minimal order t w en t y-sev en satised b y Φ (6) H reads (with x = w 2 ) 27 X n =0 a n ( x ) · d n dx n F ( x ) = 0 , (B.8) with a 27 ( x ) = (1 − 16 x ) 16 (1 − 4 x ) 3 (1 − x ) (1 − 25 x ) (1 − 9 x ) x 21 ×  1 − x + 16 x 2   1 − 10 x + 29 x 2  · P 27 ( x ) , a 26 ( x ) = (1 − 16 x ) 15 (1 − 4 x ) 2 x 20 · P 26 ( x ) , a 25 ( x ) = (1 − 16 x ) 14 (1 − 4 x ) x 19 · P 25 ( x ) , a 24 ( x ) = (1 − 16 x ) 13 x 18 · P 24 ( x ) , · · · (B.9) where the 307 ro ots of P 27 ( x ) are app ar ent singularities . The degrees of the P n ( w ) p olynomials are su h that the degrees of a i ( w ) are dereasing as: deg ( a i +1 ( w )) = deg ( a i ( w )) + 1 In fat, with 1838 terms w e ha v e found the linear ODE of Φ (6) H at order q = 42 using the follo wing ansatz for the linear ODE sear h ( D x denotes d/dx ) q X i =0 s ( i ) · p ( i ) · Dx i (B.10) Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 29 with: s ( i ) = x α ( − 1+ i ) · (1 − 1 6 x ) α ( − 1+ i ) · s α (1+ i − q ) 0 (B.11) where α ( n ) = M in (0 , n ) and s 0 = (1 − 25 x ) · (1 − 9 x ) · (1 − 4 x ) · (1 − x ) × (1 − x + 16 x 2 ) · (1 − 10 x + 2 9 x 2 ) (B.12) the p ( i ) b eing the unkno wn p olynomials. The minimal order ODE is dedued from the set of linear indep endan t ODEs found at order 42. App endix C. Singularities in the linear ODE for Φ (7) H and Φ (8) H F or Φ (7) H , w e generated large series, (1250 o eien ts and 20000 o eien ts mo dulo primes), unfortunately , insuien t to obtain the orresp onding linear ODE. Ho w ev er, b y steadily inreasing the order q of the ODE (and onsequen tly dereasing the degrees n of the p olynomials in fron t of the deriv ativ es), one ma y reognize, in oating p oin t form, the singularities of the ODE as the ro ots of the p olynomial in fron t of the higher deriv ativ e. A ro ot is onsidered as singularit y of the still unkno wn linear ODE, when as q inrease (and onsequen tly dereasing n ), it p ersists with more stabilized digits. Using 1250 terms in the series for Φ (7) H , the follo wing singularities are reognized (1 − 4 w )  1 − 5 w + 6 w 2 − w 3   1 + 2 w − 8 w 2 − 8 w 3  (1 + 4 w ) · w  1 + 2 w − w 2 − w 3   1 − 3 w + w 2   1 + 2 w − 4 w 2  (1 + w )  16 w 8 − 32 w 7 − 17 w 6 + 62 w 5 − 5 w 4 − 35 w 3 + 10 w 2 + 3 w − 1   64 w 7 + 96 w 6 + 16 w 5 − 60 w 4 − 21 w 3 + 15 w 2 + 8 w + 1   128 w 5 − 32 w 4 + 48 w 3 + 16 w 2 + 4 w − 1   4 w 5 + 51 w 3 − 21 w 4 − 1 + 10 w − 35 w 2   4 w 3 + 7 w − 5 w 2 − 1   4 w 4 + 1 + 7 w + 26 w 2 + 7 w 3   4 w 4 + 1 + 8 w + 20 w 2 + 15 w 3   1 + 12 w + 54 w 2 + 112 w 3 + 105 w 4 + 35 w 5 + 4 w 6  = 0 . W e will see in the next setion App endix E.3 that w e missed the p olynomials:  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 + 4 w + 8 w 2  (1 − w ) (C.1) (1 + 2 w )  1 − w − 3 w 2 + 4 w 3  Note that w e ha v e not seen with the preision of these alulations the o urene of the singularities of the Φ (3) H . With similar alulations using 1200 terms for Φ (8) H , the follo wing singularities are reognized: (1 − 2 w ) (1 + 2 w )  1 − 2 w 2  (1 − 4 w )  1 − 4 w + 2 w 2  (1 + 4 w )  1 + 4 w + 2 w 2   8 w 2 − 1  (3 w − 1) (1 − w ) (1 + w ) ( 3 w + 1) w  1138 w 10 − 1685 w 8 + 960 w 6 − 242 w 4 + 26 w 2 − 1   32 w 4 − 10 w 2 + 1   1312 w 6 − 56 w 4 + 30 w 2 − 1   10 w 2 − 6 w + 1   4 w 3 − 8 w 2 + 6 w − 1  Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 30 (5 w − 1 )  1 + 2 w 2  (5 w + 1)  10 w 2 + 6 w + 1   4 w 3 + 8 w 2 + 6 w + 1  = 0 . W e will see in the next setion App endix E.3 that w e missed the p olynomials:  1 − 3 w + 4 w 2   1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 10 w 2 + 29 w 4  Note that the stabilized digits in these singularities an b e as lo w as t w o digits. App endix D. Landau onditions and pin h singularities for Φ ( n ) D and in tegrals of Q y j . Similarly to the in tegral represen tation (16 ) of Φ ( n ) H , one has: Φ ( n ) D = Z 2 π 0 dφ 2 π Z 2 π 0 · dψ 2 π p (1 − 2 w cos φ ) 2 − 4 w 2 D ( φ, ψ ) (D.1) × p (1 − 2 w cos(( n − 1 ) φ )) 2 − 4 w 2 D (( n − 1) φ, ( n − 1 ) ψ ) , and n Y i =1 y i = Z 2 π 0 n Y i =1 dφ i 2 π · dψ i 2 π · 1 D ( φ i , ψ i ) · δ  n X i =1 φ i  . (D.2) F or Φ ( n ) D the singularities of the asso iated ODEs are giv en as solutions of: D ( φ, ψ ) = 0 , D (( n − 1) φ, ( n − 1) ψ ) = 0 , α 1 · sin( φ ) + α 2 · sin(( n − 1) φ ) = 0 , with α 1 , α 2 6 = 0 , α 1 · sin( ψ ) + α 2 · sin(( n − 1) ψ ) = 0 (D.3) whi h are nothing less than the Landau onditions restrited to pin h singularities of the singularit y manifolds D ( φ i , ψ i ) = 0 . F or ♯ Q n i =1 y i the singularities of the asso iated ODEs an b e written as the solutions of: D ( φ i , ψ i ) = 0 , α i · sin( φ i ) − α n · sin( φ n ) = 0 , i = 1 , · · · , n − 1 , with α i 6 = 0 α i · sin( ψ i ) = 0 , i = 1 , · · · , N (D.4) whi h are also Landau onditions restrited to pin h singularities of the singularit y manifolds D ( φ i , ψ i ) = 0 . App endix E. The singularities from Landau onditions In this App endix, w e giv e further details orresp onding to (28), (29 ) obtained from the Landau onditions: 1 − 2 w · (cos( φ j ) + cos( ψ j )) = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n, (E.1) α j · sin( φ j ) − α n · sin( φ n ) = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n − 1 , (E.2) α j · sin( ψ j ) − α n · sin( ψ n ) = 0 , j = 1 , · · · , n − 1 . (E.3) ♯ Q y i or Q y 2 i in tegrand are similar as far as lo ation of singularities of the orresp onding ODE is onerned. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 31 and: n X j =1 φ j = 0 , n X j =1 ψ j = 0 mo d . 2 π (E.4) W e solv e these equations for the v alues (zero or not) of sin( φ n ) and sin( ψ n ) . F or sin( φ n ) = sin( ψ n ) = 0 , the ase is simple and giv es w = ± 1 / 4 . App endix E.1. The  ase sin( φ n ) 6 = 0 , sin( ψ n ) = 0 In this ase, there are k angles ψ j = π and the remaining ones are ψ j = 0 . By (17 ), the in teger k should b e ev en, k = 2 p . F rom ( E.1 ), w e obtain and dene ‡ cos( φ + ) = 1 2 w + 1 , cos( φ − ) = 1 2 w − 1 . (E.5) One obtains 2 p angles φ j = ± φ + and n − 2 p angles φ j = ± φ − . The angles φ j are then partitioned in sets of p 1 angles + φ + , (2 p − p 1 ) angles − φ + , ( n − 2 p − p 2 ) angles + φ − and p 2 angles − φ − . By (E.4 ), one gets (2 p − 2 p 1 ) · φ + = ( n − 2 p − 2 p 2 ) · φ − . Note that some manipulations on the indies lead to cos ( | 2 p | · φ + ) = cos ( | n − 2 p − 2 k | · φ − ) and th us | 2 p | · φ + = ±| n − 2 p − 2 k | · φ − , allo wing us to write T 2 p (1 / 2 w + 1) = T n − 2 p − 2 k (1 / 2 w − 1) , (E.6) 0 ≤ p ≤ [ n/ 2] , 0 ≤ k ≤ [ n/ 2] − p, where T n ( x ) is the Cheb yshev p olynomial of the rst kind. One obtains the same results for the ase sin( φ n ) = 0 and sin( ψ n ) 6 = 0 . App endix E.2. The  ase sin( φ n ) 6 = 0 , sin( ψ n ) 6 = 0 In this ase, b y (E.2 ), (E.3 ), w e ha v e sin( φ j ) 6 = 0 and sin( ψ j ) 6 = 0 . The equations (E.1 ), (E.3) b eome: cos( ψ j ) = 1 − 2 w · cos( φ j ) , j = 1 , · · · , n, (E.7) sin( ψ j ) = sin( φ j ) · sin( ψ n ) sin( φ n ) , j = 1 , · · · , n. (E.8) Squaring b oth sides of b oth equations and summing, one obtains (cos( φ j ) − cos( φ n )) · (cos( φ j ) − cos( φ 0 )) = 0 , (E.9) where w e ha v e dened cos( φ 0 ) = 4 w − cos( φ n ) 1 − 4 w cos( φ n ) . (E.10) The angles φ j are then partitioned in to four sets ± φ 0 and ± φ n . Note that a similar ondition (E.9 ) o urs for the angles ψ j whi h are partitioned lik ewise. W riting (E.7 ), (E.8) for j = 0 and j = n and with the onditions ( 17), the equations b eome in terms of Cheb yshev p olynomials †† : T n 1 ( z ) − T n 2  4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  = 0 , (E.11) ‡ Note that φ + and φ − (whi h orresp ond to ψ j = π and ψ j = 0 resp etiv ely) are not on the same fo oting: indeed, the n um b er of φ + angles m ust b e ev en, while the n um b er of φ − angles dep ends on the parit y of n . †† Note that in equation (E.11 ) one m ust realise that one tak es the n umerator of these rational expressions. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 32 T n 1  1 2 w − z  − T n 2  1 2 w − 4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  = 0 , U n 2 − 1 ( z ) · U n 1 − 1  1 2 w − 4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  − U n 2 − 1  1 2 w − z  · U n 1 − 1  4 w − z 1 − 4 w z  = 0 with n 1 = p, n 2 = n − p − 2 k , (E.12) 0 ≤ p ≤ n, 0 ≤ k ≤ [( n − p ) / 2] (E.13) A t this step, some omputational remarks are in order. In the ourse of deriving (E.11), some manipulations su h as dividing b y a term ha v e b een done. Rigorously , the solutions that ome from ( E.11) ha v e to b e  he k ed against this p oin t. W e ha v e found, that as they are written, the form ulas are safe from this p ersp etiv e, exept of the follo wing. F or n = p/ 2 (xing k = 0 for on v eniene), th us for n ev en, the form ulas (E.11 ) giv e a ommon urv e whi h reads: w = 1 2 z 1 + z 2 . (E.14) This relation omes from the ondition cos( φ 0 ) = cos( φ n ) in (E.10) whi h mak es (E.9) a p erfet square. W e ha v e  he k ed that onsidering this ondition at the outset, i.e. (E.7 ), (E.8) yields no solution. App endix E.3. L andau singularities W e an write the singularities obtained from (E.6 ) as: n = 3 , (1 − 4 w ) (1 − w )  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2  = 0 , n = 4 ,  1 − 16 w 2   1 − 4 w 2  = 0 , n = 5 , (1 − 4 w ) (1 − w )  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 3 w + w 2  ×  1 − 7 w + 5 w 2 − 4 w 3   1 + 8 w + 20 w 2 + 15 w 3 + 4 w 4  = 0 , n = 6 ,  1 − 16 w 2   1 − 4 w 2   1 − w 2   1 − 25 w 2   1 − 9 w 2  ×  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 3 w + 4 w 2  = 0 . The solutions of (E.11) inlude some of the solutions of (E.6). W e giv e in the follo wing only those not o urring in ( E.6 ): n = 3 , w · (1 + 4 w ) (1 + 2 w ) = 0 , n = 4 , w = 0 , n = 5 , w · (1 + 4 w ) (1 + w ) (1 + 2 w )  1 + 2 w − 4 w 2  ×  1 + 4 w + 8 w 2   1 − w − 3 w 2 + 4 w 3  = 0 , n = 6 , w ·  1 − 10 w 2 + 29 w 4  = 0 . All these singularities an b e iden tied with the singularities o urring in the linear ODE for Φ ( n ) H , ( n = 3 , · · · , 6 ). F or n = 7 and n = 8 , the solutions of (E.6) and (E.11) an b e iden tied with the singularities giv en in App endix C and obtained in oating p oin t form. They also giv e: n = 7 ,  1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 + 4 w + 8 w 2  (1 − w ) (1 + 2 w ) Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 33 ×  1 − w − 3 w 2 + 4 w 3  = 0 , n = 8 ,  1 − 3 w + 4 w 2   1 + 3 w + 4 w 2   1 − 10 w 2 + 29 w 4  = 0 , whi h ha v e not b een found in the series with the urren tly a v ailable n um b er of terms. App endix F. Heegner n um b ers and other seleted v alues of the mo dular j -funtion The nine Heegner n um b ers [ 51 ℄ and their asso iated mo dular j -funtion j ( τ ) , yield the follo wing onditions in the v ariable w : j (1 + i ) = (12 ) 3 ,  1 − 8 w 2   1 − 16 w 2 − 8 w 4  = 0 , j (1 + i √ 2) = (20 ) 3 ,  64 w 4 + 16 w 2 − 1  ×  64 w 8 + 1792 w 6 − 368 w 4 + 32 w 2 − 1  = 0 , j  1 + i √ 3 2  = (0) 3 , 1 − 16 w 2 + 16 w 4 = 0 , j  1 + i √ 7 2  = ( − 15) 3 ,  1 − 3 1 w 2 + 256 w 4   1 − 1 6 w 2 + w 4  × (1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 ) (1 − 3 w + 4 w 2 ) = 0 , j  1 + i √ 11 2  = ( − 32) 3 , P 3 = 1 − 48 w 2 + 816 w 4 − 5632 w 6 + 4582 4 w 8 − 5365 76 w 10 + 4096 w 12 = 0 , and j  1 + i √ d 2  = ( − m ) 3 , P d = 0 with: P d = P 3 + N ·  1 − 16 w 2  · w 8 , with the follo wing v alues for the triplet ( d, m, N ) : (19 , 96 , 85196 8) , (43 , 960 , 88470323 2) , (67 , 5280 , 14719 791923 2 ) , (163 , 640320 , 2625 3 741264 0735232) Bey ond Heegner n um b ers there are man y other seleted quadrati v alues [ 52 , 53 ℄ of j , for instane: j = − 409 6 ·  15 + 7 √ 5  3 = j  1 + i √ 35 2  (F.1) Whi h is kno wn [51 ℄ to b e one of the eigh teen n um b ers ha ving lass n um b er h ( − d ) = 2 , and whi h orresp onds to the quadrati relation − 1342 177280 00 + 117964800 j + j 2 = 0 . Realling the expression of the mo dular j -funtion in term of the v ariable w j =  1 − 16 w 2 + 16 w 4  3 (1 − 16 w 2 ) w 8 , (F.2) this quadrati relation in j b eomes a quite in v olv ed p olynomial expression that w e ha v e not seen emerging as singularities of (the linear ODE's of ) our n -fold in tegrals. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 34 App endix G. Landen transformations and the mo dular j -funtion In this App endix the mo dular j -funtion (53 ) will b e seen, alternativ ely , as a funtion of the mo dulus k , and th us denoted j [ k ] , or as a funtion of the half p erio d ratio τ , and th us denoted j ( τ ) . The mo dular funtion alled the j -funtion when seen as a funtion of the mo dulus k reads: j [ k ] = 25 6 ·  1 − k 2 + k 4  3 k 4 · (1 − k 2 ) 2 . (G.1) Inreasing the mo dulus b y (48), the mo dular funtion j ( k ) b eomes: j [ k 1 ] = j 1 [ k ] = 16 ·  1 + 14 k 2 + k 4  3 k 2 · (1 − k 2 ) 4 . (G.2) Iterating this pro edure one more one obtains: j 1 [ k 1 ] = j 2 [ k ] = 4 ·  k 4 + 60 k 3 + 134 k 2 + 60 k + 1  3 k · (1 + k ) 2 (1 − k ) 8 . (G.3) The derease of the mo dulus b y (47 ) giv es: j [ k − 1 ] = j − 1 [ k ] = 16 ·  k 4 − 16 k 2 + 16  3 k 8 (1 − k 2 ) . (G.4) The next iterations (the ub e of (48 ) and the square of (47 )) giv es algebrai expressions for j [ k ] . It is easy to get a r epr esentation of the L anden tr ansformation on the mo dular j -funtions b y elimination of the mo dulus k b et w een ( 53) and (G.2). One obtains the w ell-kno wn fundamen tal mo dular urve [49 , 50 ℄: Γ 1 ( j, j 1 ) = j 2 · j 2 1 − ( j + j 1 ) · ( j 2 + 14 87 j j 1 + j 2 1 ) + 3 · 1 5 3 · (16 j 2 − 40 27 j j 1 + 16 j 2 1 ) (G.5) − 12 · 30 6 · ( j + j 1 ) + 8 · 3 0 9 = 0 . This algebrai urv e is symmetri in j and j 1 . W e will obtain the same mo dular urv e (G.5) b y elimination of the mo dulus k b et w een (G.2 ) and (G.3), or b et w een (G.1) and (G.4). The t w o mo dular funtions j and j 1 are in v arian t b y the S L (2 , Z ) mo dular group, and, in partiular, transformation τ → 1 /τ . As a onsequene, the transformation τ → 2 · τ , and its in v erse τ → τ / 2 , have to b e on the same fo oting in the mo dular urv e represen tation (G.5) for the Landen and Gauss transformations. Similarly , one an easily nd the (gen us zero) mo dular urv e Γ 2 obtained b y the elimination of the mo dulus k b et w een (G.1) and ( G.3), (or b et w een (G.4) and (G.4)), whi h orresp onds to the transformation τ → 4 · τ and, at the same time , to its in v erse τ → τ / 4 . This last algebrai urv e is, of ourse, also a mo dular urve . App endix G.1. Fixe d p oints of these mo dular r epr esentations in terms of j -funtion T ransformations lik e j → j 1 , or j → j 2 , orresp onding to the previous mo dular urv es, are not (one-to-one) mappings, they are alled orresp ondene b y V eselo v [ 23 , 24 ℄. In order to lo ok at the xed p oin ts of the Landen, Gauss transformations (or their iterates) seen as transformations on  omplex variables , within the framew ork of (mo dular) represen tations on the mo dular j -funtions, w e write, resp etiv ely , Γ 1 ( j, j 1 = j ) = 0 and Γ 2 ( j, j 2 = j ) = 0 Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 35 The xed p oin ts Γ 1 ( j, j 1 = j ) = 0 of the (mo dular) orresp ondene (G.5), are j = j 1 = (12) 3 or (20) 3 or ( − 15) 3 . The xed p oin ts Γ 2 ( j, j 2 = j ) = 0 of mo dular urv e orresp onding to the square of the Landen transformation, are j = j 2 = (66) 3 , or 2 · (30) 3 , or ( − 15) 3 or the solutions ‡ of j 2 + 1910 25 · j − 12 1 287375 = 0 , namely: j = − 3 3 ·  1 + √ 5 2  2 · (5 + 4 · √ 5) 3 = j  τ = 1 + i √ 15 2  (G.6) and its Galois onjugate ( hange √ 5 in to − √ 5 ). App endix G.2. A lternative appr o ah to xe d p oints of the L anden tr ansformation and its iter ates In order to get the xed p oin ts of the Landen transformation, let us imp ose that (G.1) and (G.2) are atually equal, th us j [ k ] = j [ k 1 ] . This yields the ondition (already seen to orresp ond to the χ (3) -singularities 1 + 3 w + 4 w 2 = 0 ):  4 k 2 + 3 k + 1   k 2 + 3 k + 4  = 0 (G.7) together with:  4 k 2 − 3 k + 1   k 2 − 3 k + 4   k 2 + 2 k − 1   k 2 − 2 k − 1   1 + k 2  = 0 . (G.8) The rst t w o p olynomial onditions in (G.8), (4 k 2 − 3 k + 1) ( k 2 − 3 k + 4) = 0 , orresp ond to the Heegner n um b er asso iated with the in teger v alue j = ( − 15) 3 . The next t w o p olynomial onditions in (G.8), k 2 ± 2 k − 1 = 0 , orresp ond to the Heegner n um b er asso iated with the in teger v alue j = (20 ) 3 . The last p olynomial ondition in (G.8), 1 + k 2 = 0 , orresp onds to the Heegner n um b er asso iated with the in teger v alue j = (12) 3 . Similarly , in order to get the xed p oin ts of the square of the Landen transformation, let us require that (G.1) and (G.3) are atually equal: j [ k ] = j [ k 2 ] . This yields the onditions (G.7) (xed p oin ts of the Landen transformation) together with:  k 2 − 6 k + 1   1 + 14 k 2 + k 4  = 0 (G.9)  k 4 − 6 k 3 + 17 k 2 + 36 k + 16  (G.10) ×  16 k 4 + 36 k 3 + 17 k 2 − 6 k + 1  = 0 . In (G.9 ) the ondition 1 + 14 k 2 + k 4 = 0 (or 1 − 16 w 2 + 256 w 4 = 0 ) orresp onds to j = 2 (30) 3 whi h is not a Heegner n um b er but atually orresp onds to omplex m ultipliation. The ondition k 2 − 6 k + 1 = 0 in (G.9) (or 1 − 32 w 2 = 0 ) orresp onds to j = (66) 3 whi h is not a Heegner n um b er either but atually orresp onds to omplex m ultipliation. Note that b oth p olynomials under the Landen transformation (48) giv e resp etiv ely j = (0) 3 and j = (12) 3 , i.e. Heegner n um b ers. The last t w o (self-dual) onditions in (G.10 ), read in w 1 − 9 w + 1 7 w 2 + 24 w 3 + 6 w 4 = 0 , (G.11) 1 + 9 w + 1 7 w 2 − 24 w 3 + 6 w 4 = 0 and yield as seleted v alue [52 , 53 ℄ of j , the quadrati ro ots − 1212 87375 + 19102 5 j + j 2 = 0 , already giv en in ( G.6). ‡ This orresp onds to a v alue of j of lass n um b er h ( − d ) = 2 , see (58) in [51℄. Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 36 One more step an b e p erformed writing the ondition j [ k − 1 ] = j [ k 2 ] . One gets the onditions:  k 2 + 3 k + 4  2  4 k 2 − 3 k + 1   k 2 + 2 k − 1   k 2 + 1  = 0 previously obtained and orresp onding to j = ( − 15) 3 , 20 3 , 12 3 , together with: k 6 − 27 k 5 + 363 k 4 + 423 k 3 − 168 k 2 − 144 k + 64 = 0 , k 6 + 17 k 5 + 143 k 4 + 203 k 3 + 52 k 2 + 32 k + 64 = 0 (G.12) orresp onding, resp etiv ely , to the t w o ubi relations on j : 15660 283509 40383 − 586826 38134 j + 39 491307 j 2 + j 3 = 0 , 12771 880859 375 − 515129 6875 j + 3 491750 j 2 + j 3 = 0 . (G.13) These onditions (G.13 ) yield quite in v olv ed p olynomial expressions in the v ariable w that w e ha v e not seen emerging as singularities of (the linear ODE's of ) our n -fold in tegrals (or the Y ( n ) or Φ ( n ) either). App endix H. Linear dieren tial op erators for the Sorokin in tegrals Reall the o urrene of zeta funtions ev aluated at in teger v alues in man y n -fold in tegrals orresp onding to partile ph ysis, eld theory , ... F or instane, the follo wing in tegral [33 , 36 ℄ is asso iated with ζ (3) : I n ( z ) = Z 1 0 du dv dw · (1 − u ) n u n · (1 − v ) n v n · (1 − w ) n w n (1 − u v ) n +1 · ( z − u v w ) n +1 (H.1) F rom the series expansion of this holonomi n -fold in tegral, w e ha v e obtained the orresp onding order four F u hsian linear dieren tial equation. On these linear dieren tial op erators the logarithmi nature of these in tegrals b eomes lear. The fully in tegrated series expansion of the triple in tegral (H.1) is giv en b y (where x denotes 1 /z ): I n ( x ) = ∞ X i =0 x n + i +1 · Γ 2 ( n + 1) · Γ 4 ( n + i + 1) Γ( i + 1) · Γ 3 (2 + 2 n + i ) × 3 F 2 ( n + 1 , n + i + 1 , n + i + 1; 2 n + i + 2 , 2 n + i + 2; 1) . The triple in tegral I n ( x ) is solution of the order four F u hsian linear dieren tial op erator ( D x denotes d/dx ) L n = D x 4 + 2 (3 x − 1 ) ( x − 1 ) x · D x 3 +  7 x 2 + ( n 2 + n − 5) x − 2 n ( n + 1 )  ( x − 1) 2 x 2 · D x 2 +  x 2 + 2 n ( n + 1)  ( x − 1) 2 x 3 · D x + n ( n + 1) ·  ( n 2 + n + 1) x + ( n − 1) ( n + 2)  ( x − 1) 2 x 4 whi h has the follo wing fatorization L n =  D x + d ln( A 1 ) dx  ·  D x + d ln( A 2 ) dx  (H.2) ×  D x + d ln( A 3 ) dx  ·  D x + d ln( A 4 ) dx  Singularities of n -fold inte gr als 37 where: A 1 = − ( n − 1) · ln( x ) + 2 · ln( x − 1) + ln( P n ) , A 2 = ( n + 1) · ln( x ) − ( n − 1) · ln( x − 1) − ln( P n ) + ln( Q n ) , A 3 = − n · ln( x ) + ( n + 1) · ln( x − 1) + ln( P n ) − ln( Q n ) , A 4 = n · ln( x ) − ln( P n ) , and where P n and Q n are p olynomials in x of degree n . They are the p olynomial solutions b eha ving as · · · + x n for a system of oupled dieren tial equations ( P ( m ) n (resp. 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