Multiple polylogarithm values at roots of unity

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2008.09.011MaRDI QIDQ952114zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jianqiang Zhao

Publication date 6 November 2008

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1064

zbMATH Keywords

linear relationsmultiple zeta valuespolylogarithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55) Multiple Dirichlet series and zeta functions and multizeta values (11M32)

Abstract: For any positive integer $N$ let $m{u}_N$ be the group of the $N$th roots of unity. In this note we shall study the $Q$-linear relations among values of multiple polylogarithms evaluated at $mm{u}_N$. We show that the standard relations considered by Racinet do not provide all the possible relations in the following cases: (i) level N=4, weight $w=3$ or 4, and (ii) $w=2$, $7<N<50$, and $N$ is a power of 2 or 3, or $N$ has at least two prime factors. We further find some (presumably all) of the missing relations in (i) by using the octahedral symmetry of $P^1-(0,inftycupm{u}_4)$. We also prove some other results when $N=p$ or $N=p^2$ ($p$ prime $ge5$) by using the motivic fundamental group of $P^1-(0,inftycupm{u}_N)$.

Review text

The author studies a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-vector space spanned by the values of \[ \text{Li}_{s_1,\dots,s_n}(\zeta_1,\dots,\zeta_n)=\sum_{k_1>\dots>k_n>0} \frac{\zeta_1^{k_1}\dots \zeta_n^{k_n}}{k_1^{s_1}\dots k_n^{s_n}}, \] where \(\zeta_j\)'s run through \(N\)th roots of unity. Let \(d(w,N)\) be the dimension of this vector space of weight \(w=s_1+\dots+s_n.\) In particular, the author proves that \(d(2,p) \leq (5p+7)(p+1)/24\) and that \(d(2,p^2)<p^2(p-1)^2/4\) for each prime number \(p \geq 5\). He also establishes several \(\mathbb{Q}\)-linear relations between these values which were earlier found numerically, for instance, \[ 5\, \text{Li}_{1,2}(-1,-i)=46\, \text{Li}_{1,1,1}(i,1,1)-7\, \text{Li}_{1,1,1}(-1,-1,i)-13 \, \text{Li}_{1,1,1}(i,i,i)+13 \, \text{Li}_{1,2}(-i,i) \] \[ - \text{Li}_{1,1,1}(-i,-1,1)+25 \, \text{Li}_{1,1,1}(-i,1,1)-8 \, \text{Li}_{1,1,1}(i,i,-1)+18 \, \text{Li}_{2,1}(-i,1). \]

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