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We formulate and prove a combinatorial criterion to decide if an A-hypergeometric system of differential equations has a full set of algebraic solutions or not. This criterion generalises the so-called interlacing criterion in the case of hypergeometric functions of one variable.
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Beukers, F. Algebraic A-hypergeometric functions. Invent. math. 180, 589–610 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-010-0238-y
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