Mahler measures and computations with regulators (Q2483164)

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.