G-Functions and Geometry

Inhalt
One: What are G-functions?.- I: G-functions.- II: Geometric differential equations.- Two: G-functions and differential equations.- III: Fuchsian differential systems: formal theory.- IV: Fuchsian differential systems: arithmetic theory.- V: Local methods.- VI: Global methods.- Three: Diophantine questions.- VII: Independence of values of G-functions.- VIII: A criterium of rationality.- Four: G-functions in arithmetic algebraic geometry.- IX: Towards Grothendieck's conjecture on periods of algebraic manifolds.- X: Endomorphisms in the fibers of an Abelian pencil.- Glossary of notations.