The areal Mahler measure under a power change of variables (Q6561329)

The (logarithmic) Mahler measure \(m(R),\) and the areal (logarithmic) Mahler measure \(m_{\mathbb{D}}(R)\) of a non-zero rational function \(R\in \mathbb{C} (x_{1},\ldots,x_{n})^{\times }\) are, respectively, given by\N\[\Nm(R)=\frac{1}{(2\pi i)^{n}}\int_{\mathbb{T}^{n}}\log \left\vert R(x_{1},\ldots,x_{n})\right\vert \frac{dx_{1}}{x_{1}}\cdots\frac{dx_{n}}{x_{n}},\N\]\Nwhere the integration is taken over the unit torus \(\mathbb{T}^{n}=\{(x_{1},\ldots,x_{n})\in \mathbb{C}^{n}\mid \left\vert x_{1}\right\vert =\cdot \cdot \cdot =\left\vert x_{n}\right\vert =1\}\) with respect to the Haar measure, and\N\[\Nm_{\mathbb{D}}(R)=\frac{1}{\pi ^{n}}\int_{\mathbb{D}^{n}}\log \left\vert R(x_{1},\ldots,x_{n})\right\vert dA(x_{1})\cdots dA(x_{n}),\N\]\Nwhere \(\mathbb{D}^{n}=\{(x_{1},\ldots,x_{n})\in \mathbb{C}^{n}\mid \left\vert x_{1}\right\vert ,\ldots ,\left\vert x_{n}\right\vert \leq 1\}\) and the measure is the natural measure in the \(A^{0}\) Bergman space.\N\NIt is well-known that the Mahler measure is invariant when one of the variables, \(x_{i},\) is replaced by a power of itself \(x_{i}^{r},\) where \(r\) is a natural number. This is not true for the areal Mahler measure, and in the paper under review the authors investigate how the areal Mahler measure changes with this transformation. Among other results illustrating this, they compute \(m_{\mathbb{D}}(1+x_{1}^{r}+x_{2}^{s})\) for all \((r,s)\in \mathbb{N}^{2},\) and verify that the equality \(m_{\mathbb{D}}(1+x_{1}^{r}+x_{2}^{s})=m_{\mathbb{D}}(1+x_{1}+x_{2})\) is only valid when \((r,s)=(1,1)\).