Motivic Gamma functions and periods associated to the Frobenius method

(Joint work with Masha Vlasenko) In their work on the Gamma conjecture, Golyshev and Zagier introduced certain inhomogeneous Frobenius solutions defined in a neighborhood of a MUM point of a Landau model. We show in the case of the Apéry family that the variations of these inhomogeneous solutions about a nearby conifold point are periods, and the resulting generating function is a motivic gamma function in the sense of Golyshev. More generally, such solutions yield a variation of \C-Hodge structure on a punctured disk about the MUM point. This variation admits a Q-Hodge structure if the monodromy of the inhomogeneous solutions about the conifold point satisfies the Picard-Lefschetz theorem.