Table of Contents

1. Holonomic Sequence

  • P-recursive Sequence, D-finite Sequence
  • The coefficients are functions of \(n\).

2. Holonomic Function

  • Differentiably Finite Function, D-finite Function

2.1. Definition

  • Smooth Function of several variables that is a solution of a system of linear homogeneous differential equation with polynomial coefficients, and satisfies suitable dimension condition in terms of D-modules theory.
  • It is an element of a holonomic module of smooth functions.
  • For a field \(\mathbb{K}\) with ../algebra/Ring Theory.html#org65f1e63 0,
  • A function \(f\) is called holonomic, if there exits nonzero polynomials \((a_i)_{i=0}^r \subset \mathbb{K}[x]\), such that
    • \[ \sum_{i=0}^r a_if^{(i)} = 0. \]

2.1.1. Annihilating Operator

  • \[ A := \sum_{i=1}^r a_iD^i \]
  • is the annihilating operator of \(f\).
  • And it generates an ideal in the ring \(\mathbb{K}[x][D]\), called the annihilator of \(f\).
  • \(r\) is called the order of the annihilating operator, and by extension the function \(f\) is of order \(r\) if annihilating operator of such order exists.

3. Properties

3.1. Finite Representation

  • It can be represented by a finite amount of data, namely an annihilating operator and a finite set of initial values.

3.2. Closure

  • Holonomic functions are closed under
    • Linear combination
    • Point-wise product
    • Hadamard product
    • Integration

4. Reference

Author: Jeemin Kim

Created: 2026-07-16 Thu 21:34