Approximations to \(q\)-logarithms and \(q\)-dilogarithms, with applications to \(q\)-zeta values (Q558747)

The author is able to construct explicit simultaneous approximations to the \(q\)-series \(L_1(x_i;q)\) for \(x_i\), \(i=1, 2, \dots,s\), and also to the \(q\)-series \(L_1(x;q)\) and \(L_2 (x;q)\), where \[ L_1(x;q)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty {(xq)^n \over 1-q^n}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty {xq^n \over 1-xq^n} \] and \[ L_2(x;q)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty {n(xq)^n \over 1-q^n}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty {xq^n \over (1-xq^n)^2}. \] These constructions have arithmetical corrolaries, in particular a quantitative linear indepence over \({\mathbb Q}\) for the three numbers \(1\), \(\zeta_q(1)=L_1(1;q)\) and \(\zeta_{q^2}(1)\), and also for the three numbers \(1\), \(\zeta_q(1)=L_1(1;q)\) and \(\zeta_{q}(2)=L_2(1;q)\) for \(q=1/p\) when \(p\in {\mathbb Z}\setminus \{0,\pm1\}\).