On linear independence of Dirichlet L values

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2022.09.016MaRDI QIDQ6419209arXivFDO

Authors Sanoli Gun, Neelam Kandhil, Patrice Philippon

Publication date 1 December 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JNT.2022.09.016

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72) (zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Cyclotomic extensions (11R18)

arXiv classification

math.NT

Abstract: The study of linear independence of $L(k,chi)$ for a fixed integer $k>1$ and varying $chi$ depends critically on the parity of $k$ vis-`a-vis $chi$. This has been investigated by a number of authors for Dirichlet characters $chi$ of a fixed modulus and having the same parity as $k$.The focal point of this article is to extend this investigation to families of Dirichlet characters modulo distinct pairwise co-prime natural numbers. The interplay between the resulting ambient number fields brings in new technical issues and complications hitherto absent in the context of a fixed modulus (consequently a single number field lurking in the background). This entails a very careful and hands-on dealing with the arithmetic of compositum of number fields which we undertake in this work. Our results extend earlier works of the first author with Murty-Rath as well as works of Okada, Murty-Saradha and Hamahata.

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