Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. CHAPTER 1. First results on rigid local systems 13
5. CHAPTER 2. The theory of middle convolution 35
6. CHAPTER 3. Fourier Transform and rigidity 91
7. CHAPTER 4. Middle convolution: dependence on parameters 111
8. CHAPTER 5. Structure of rigid local systems 121
9. CHAPTER 6. Existence algorithms for rigids 153
10. CHAPTER 7. Diophantine aspects of rigidity 169
11. CHAPTER 8. Motivic description of rigids 183
12. CHAPTER 9. Grothendieck's p-curvature conjecture for rigids 197
13. References 219