Explicit relations between multiple zeta values and related variants (Q2048387)

Based on author's abstract: The content of this paper is related to the following topics: multiple harmonic sums, multiple harmonic star sums, alternating multiple zeta star values, multiple polylogarithms, Kaneko-Yamamoto type multiple zeta values, and also iterated integration. These topics have been used in analytic number theory. The author gives some new identities for multiple polylogarithms (abbr. MPLs) and multiple harmonic star sums (abbr. MHSSs) by using the methods of iterated integral computations of logarithm functions. Then, by applying these formulas obtained, the author presents many explicit relations between Kaneko-Yamamoto type multiple zeta values (abbr. K-Y MZVs), multiple zeta values (abbr. MZVs) and MPLs. Further, he finds some explicit relations between MZVs and multiple zeta star values (abbr. MZSVs). Furthermore, the author defines an Apery-type variant of MZSVs \(\zeta_B^\star(\mathbf{k})\), so-called multiple zeta B-star values, (abbr. MZBSVs), which involve MHSSs and central binomial coefficients, and establish some explicit connections among MZVs, alternating MZVs and MZBSVs by using the method of iterated integrals. The author also gives some consequences and illustrative examples for these functions.