Expansion of multiple integrals in linear forms (Q2388176)

After Apéry's proof of the irrationality of \(\zeta(3)\), F.~Beukers in 1979 gave an alternative argument involving the integrals \[ \int_0^1\int_0^1\int_0^1\frac{x^n (1-x)^ny^n (1-y)^n z^n(1-z)^n}{ \bigl(1-z(1-xy)\bigr)^{n+1}}\, dx\, dy\, dz \] [\textit{F. Beukers}, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 11, 268--272 (1979; Zbl 0421.10023)]. Various generalizations have been introduced, especially by O. N.~Vasilenko, D. V. Vasiliev, V. V. Zudilin and V. N. Sorokin. In the paper under review the author considers integrals of the form \[ \int_{[0,1]^m} \frac{ \prod_{i=1}^m x_i^{a_i-1} (1-x_i)^{b_i-a_i-1} }{\prod_{j=1}^\ell \bigl(1-zx_1x_2\cdots x_{r_j}\bigr)^{c_j}} \,dx_1\cdots dx_m. \] Under suitable assumptions on the parameters \(a_1,b_1,\ldots,a_m,b_m\), \(c_1,r_1,\ldots,c_\ell,r_\ell\), he shows that such an integral is a linear combination of values of generalized polylogarithms. Further related results on these integrals are due to \textit{J.~Cresson, S.~Fischler} and \textit{T.~Rivoal} [Séries hypergéométriques multiples et polyzêtas, MathArXiv. preprint math.NT/0609743] and to \textit{S.~Fischler} [Multiple series connected to Hoffman's conjecture on multiple zeta values, MathArXiv. preprint math.NT/0609799].