Symbolic integration of hyperexponential 1-forms

Abstract

Let $H$ be a hyperexponential function in $n$ variables $x=(x_1,\dots ,x_n)$ with coefficients in a field $\mathbb{K}$, $[\mathbb{K}:\mathbb{Q}]<\infty$, and $\omega$ a rational differential $1$-form. Assume that $H\omega$ is closed and $H$ transcendental. We prove using Schanuel conjecture that there exist a univariate function $f$ and multivariate rational functions $F,R$ such that $\int H\omega =f(F(x))+H(x)R(x)$. We present an algorithm to compute this decomposition. This allows us to present an algorithm to construct a basis of the cohomology of differential $1$-forms with coefficients in $H\mathbb{K}[x,1/(SD)]$ for a given $H$, $D$ being the denominator of $dH/H$ and $S\in \mathbb{K}[x]$ a square free polynomial. As an application, we generalize a result of Singer on differential equations on the plane: whenever it admits a Liouvillian first integral $I$ but no Darbouxian first integral, our algorithm gives a rational variable change linearising the system.

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