### Special Issue on Algebraic Methods in Dynamical Systems

The Guest Editors for this special issue are

Primitivo B. Acosta-Humánez (Universidad del Atlantico, Colombia)
Andrzej J. Maciejewski (Zielona Góra University, Poland)
Jean-Pierre Ramis (Université Paul Sabatier, France)
Hiroshi Umemura (Nagoya University, Japan)

The present collection contains papers closely related to the International Conference on Algebraic Methods in Dynamical Systems, conference in honor to the 60th birthday of Juan J. Morales-Ruiz, held at Barranquilla, October 5–11, 2014.

The issue contains 7 papers with the total of 123 pages.

We would like to thank all the authors who have published their high quality papers in the issue, and to give our special thanks to all the referees for providing constructive reports to improve each contribution.

The Guest Editors

Papers in this Issue:

Differential Galois Theory and Lie Symmetries
David Blázquez-Sanz, Juan J. Morales-Ruiz and Jacques-Arthur Weil
SIGMA 11 (2015), 092, 17 pages   [ abs   pdf ]
Dynamics on Wild Character Varieties
Emmanuel Paul and Jean-Pierre Ramis
SIGMA 11 (2015), 068, 21 pages   [ abs   pdf ]
Topological Monodromy of an Integrable Heisenberg Spin Chain
Jeremy Lane
SIGMA 11 (2015), 062, 18 pages   [ abs   pdf ]
Non-Integrability of Some Higher-Order Painlevé Equations in the Sense of Liouville
Ognyan Christov and Georgi Georgiev
SIGMA 11 (2015), 045, 20 pages   [ abs   pdf ]
The Stokes Phenomenon and Some Applications
Marius van der Put
SIGMA 11 (2015), 036, 13 pages   [ abs   pdf ]
On a Quantization of the Classical $\theta$-Functions
Yurii V. Brezhnev
SIGMA 11 (2015), 035, 11 pages   [ abs   pdf ]
Galois Groups of Difference Equations of Order Two on Elliptic Curves
Thomas Dreyfus and Julien Roques
SIGMA 11 (2015), 003, 23 pages   [ abs   pdf ]