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Opuscula Math. 35, no. 5 (2015), 567–594 /10.7494/OpMath.2067 Opuscula Mathematica RIGIDITY OF MONODROMIES FOR APPELL’S HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS Yoshishige Haraoka and Tatsuya Kikukawa Communicated by P.A. Cojuhari Abstract. For monodromy representations of holonomic systems, the rigidity can be defined. We examine the rigidity of the monodromy representations for Appell’s hypergeometric func- tions, and get the representations explicitly. The results show how the topology of the singular locus and the spectral types of the local monodromies work for the study of the rigidity. Keywords: rigidity, monodromy, arrangement of hyperplanes. Mathematics Subject Classification: 33C65, 57M05. 1. INTRODUCTION A local system on , being a finite subset, is said to be rigid if it is determined uniquely up to isomorphisms by the local monodromies. Katz [10] defined the index of rigidity, which gives a criterion for the rigidity. The index of rigidity takes a value in even integers up to 2 for irreducible local systems, and it takes the maximal value 2 if and only if the (irreducible) local system is rigid. We can extend the notion of the rigidity to local systems on , where is a hypersurface. A local system on is identified with an anti-homomorphism Let be the irreducible decomposition of . Fix any irreducible component . If both encircle once in the positive direction and do not encircle the other ’s , then and are conjugate to each other in . Then we can define the local monodromy of at by the conjugacy class . The definition of the rigidity is completely similar to the