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Abstract

It is an old question to characterize those differential equations or differential modules, respectively, whose solution spaces consist of functions which are algebraic over the base field. The most famous conjecture in this context is due to A. Gorthendieck and relates the algebraicity property with the p-curvature which apprears as the first integrability obstruction in characteristic p. Here we prove a variant of Grothendieck's conjecture for differential modules with vanishing higher integrability obstructions modulo p - these are iterative differential modules - and give some applications.