Mahler measures and computations with regulators (Q2483164): Difference between revisions

The author continues her work on finding some exact formulas for the logarithmic Mahler measure \(m(P)\) of some special Laurent polynomials \(P \in \mathbb C[x_1^{\pm 1}, \dots, x_n^{\pm 1}]\) in terms of values of Dirichlet \(L\)-series. For given rational functions \(f_1, \dots, f_r \in \mathbb C(x_1^{\pm 1},\dots, x_n^{\pm 1}),\) the generalized logarithmic Mahler measure is defined by \[ m(f_1,\dots,f_r)= (2\pi i)^{-n} \int_{\mathbb T^n} \max\{ \log | f_1| ,\dots, \log | f_r| \} {dx_1 \over x_1} \dots {dx_n \over x_n}. \] She proves that if, for example, \(P \in \mathbb C(x_1,\dots,x_n)\) and \(f_i=P(x_{i,1},\dots,x_{i,n})\) for \(i=1,\dots,r\) then \[ \lim_{r \to \infty} m(f_1,\dots,f_r)=\log \|P\|_{\infty}, \] where \(\|\cdot\|_{\infty}\) is the sup norm on the torus \(\mathbb T^n.\) The main part of the work is to establish explicit formulas for \(m((1-x_1)/(1+x_1),\dots,(1-x_n)/(1+x_n))\) and \(m(1+x_1-x_1^{-1},\dots,1+x_n-x_n^{-1}).\) Then she recovers some known formulas for \(m(P)\) and also obtains some new ones.