Periods.
Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory (11-02) Special values of automorphic (L)-series, periods of automorphic forms, cohomology, modular symbols (11F67) (L)-functions of varieties over global fields; Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (11G40) Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55)
The authors define a period to be a complex number whose real and imaginary parts are values of absolutely convergent integrals of rational functions with rational coefficients integrated over domains in \(\mathbb R^n\) described by polynomial inequalities with rational coefficients. For example the numbers \(\sqrt 2\), \(\pi\), \(\zeta(3)\) and \(\Gamma(5/4)^4\) are periods but the authors conjecture that \(e\) and Euler's constant \(\gamma\) are not. The first section of the paper explores the conjecture (the authors call it a ``widely held belief) that if a period has two integral representations then one can prove the identity of the two representations by means of the rules of elementary calculus. They illustrate this with some well-chosen examples. Section 2 of the paper explores periods that appear as special values of the solutions to linear differential equations evaluated at algebraic arguments and exhibits some striking examples from the theory of elliptic curves, hypergeometric functions and modular forms. In Section 3, the authors discuss conjectures expressing special values of \(L\)-functions as periods, in particular the far reaching conjecture of Deligne-Beilinson-Scholl concerning motivic \(L\)-functions and the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. In particular it is shown how the latter conjecture might be formulated as proving the equality of two periods and hence should be capable of an elementary proof for any particular elliptic curve by the meta conjecture of the first section. The final section 4, due to the first author, is a sketch of an elementary approach to motives via periods. The paper is well worth reading and should appeal to a wide variety of tastes. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0955.00011].
- Linear independence of digamma function and a variant of a conjecture of Rohrlich
- Transcendence of the log gamma function and some discrete periods
- Linear forms in multiple zeta values and multiple integrals
- The arithmetic and topology of differential equations
- A functional identity involving elliptic integrals
- Motives and periods in Bianchi IX gravity models
- Integration of oscillatory and subanalytic functions
- MPL -- a program for computations with iterated integrals on moduli spaces of curves of genus zero
- Combinatorics and topology of Kawai-Lewellen-Tye relations
- Period relations for cusp forms of \(\operatorname{GSp_4}\)
- Syntactic categories for Nori motives
- Periods of 1-motives and transcendence.
- Matroids, motives, and a conjecture of Kontsevich.
- Domb's numbers and Ramanujan-Sato type series for \(1/\pi\)
- Disordered \(O(n)\) loop model and coupled conformal field theories
- The Riemann hypothesis for period polynomials of Hilbert modular forms
- A finite analogue of the ring of algebraic numbers
- Rational functions, cotangent sums and Eichler integrals
- Gauss-Manin connection in disguise: genus two curves
- An introduction to motivic Feynman integrals
- Single-valued integration and double copy
- Unramified sections of the Legendre scheme and modular forms
- Analytic structure of all loop banana integrals
- Moments in Pearson's four-step uniform random walk problem and other applications of very well-poised generalized hypergeometric series
- \(L\)-values for conductor 32
- On the equality of periods of Kontsevich-Zagier
- Integrated correlators in \(\mathcal{N} = 4\) super Yang-Mills and periods
- Hodge structures and differential operators
- A whipple \(_7F_6\) formula revisited
- On a conjecture of Murty-Saradha about digamma values
- \( \hbox{Next-to}{}^k\) leading log expansions by chord diagrams
- From positive geometries to a coaction on hypergeometric functions
- Multiple zeta functions and polylogarithms over global function fields
- On coefficients of Poincaré series and single-valued periods of modular forms
- A p-adic variant of Kontsevich-Zagier integral operation rules and of Hrushovski-Kazhdan style motivic integration
- Inverse binomial series and values of Arakawa-Kaneko zeta functions
- Numbers as functions
- The ramificant determinant
- Book review of: A. Huber and S. Müller-Stach. Periods and Nori motives
- Exploring transcendentality in superstring amplitudes
- A class of non-holomorphic modular forms. I
- Period polynomials, derivatives of L-functions, and zeros of polynomials
- On the Colmez conjecture for non-abelian CM fields
- Linear differential equations as a data structure
- On lattice sums and Wigner limits
- Mock period functions in higher level cases
- Moments of elliptic integrals and critical L-values
- A modification of the Kontsevich-Zagier conjecture on periods
- Volume functions of linear series
- Periods and motives in the spectral action of Robertson-Walker spacetimes
- New directions in algebraic dynamical systems
- Quantum fields and motives
- Trigonometric series and special values of \(L\)-functions
- On the expansion of some exponential periods in an integer base
- Recursive computation of Feynman periods
- Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization and extensions of Calabi-Yau motives
- A continuous version of multiple zeta functions and multiple zeta values
- Algorithms for minimal Picard-Fuchs operators of Feynman integrals
- Linear and algebraic independence of generalized Euler-briggs constants
- Euler's constant: Euler's work and modern developments
- Counting special points: logic, Diophantine geometry, and transcendence theory
- D-finite numbers
- Period computations for covers of elliptic curves
- Special L-values and periods of weakly holomorphic modular forms
- A CLASS OF NONHOLOMORPHIC MODULAR FORMS II: EQUIVARIANT ITERATED EISENSTEIN INTEGRALS
- Perturbative quantum field theory meets number theory
- Periods and superstring amplitudes
- Elliptic functions and transcendence
- Relativistic causality and position space renormalization
- Irrationality exponent and rational approximations with prescribed growth
- Rational approximations for values of derivatives of the Gamma function
- Galois theory, motives and transcendental numbers
- Integration of semialgebraic functions and integrated Nash functions
- Harmonic Maass forms and periods
- Identities for the Ramanujan zeta function
- The Bowman-Bradley theorem for multiple zeta-star values
- Periods of mixed Tate motives over real quadratic number rings
- Evaluation of harmonic sums with integrals
- Modular forms, hypergeometric functions and congruences
- Polylogarithmic zeta functions and their p-adic analogues
- Canonical q-deformations in arithmetic geometry
- Legendre functions, spherical rotations, and multiple elliptic integrals
- Holomorphic automorphic forms and cohomology
- Recent developments on noncommutative motives
- Single-valued multiple polylogarithms and a proof of the zig-zag conjecture
- The polylog quotient and the Goncharov quotient in computational Chabauty-Kim theory. I.
- Values of multiple zeta functions with polynomial denominators at non-positive integers
- Periods and Reciprocity I
- Hypertranscendence and linear difference equations
- Diophantine approximation
- Arithmetic theory of \(E\)-operators
- Linear independence of periods
- Hypergeometric functions over finite fields
- Multiple Dedekind zeta functions
- On linear spaces of periods, extensions, matrix coefficients and deficiency
- Heun functions and diagonals of rational functions
- Galois theory of periods
- Kernels of $L$-functions and shifted convolutions
- Computing the Hausdorff boundary measure of semialgebraic sets
- Quantization of spectral curves for meromorphic Higgs bundles through topological recursion
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