Systems of Discrete Differential Equations, Constructive Algebraicity of the Solutions

Abstract

In this article, we study systems of $n\ge 1$, not necessarily linear, discrete differential equations (DDEs) of order $k\ge 1$ with one catalytic variable. We provide a constructive and elementary proof of algebraicity of the solutions of such equations. This part of the present article can be seen as a generalization of the pioneering work by Bousquet-Mélou and Jehanne (2006) who settled down the case $n=1$. Moreover, we obtain effective bounds for the algebraicity degrees of the solutions and provide an algorithm for computing annihilating polynomials of the algebraic series. Finally, we carry out a first analysis in the direction of effectivity for solving systems of DDEs in view of practical applications.