The Mahler measure of parametrizable polynomials

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2007.12.002zbMATH Open1194.11099arXivmath/0611159OpenAlexW2026053899MaRDI QIDQ1024407FDOQ1024407

Sam Vandervelde

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Our aim is to explain instances in which the value of the logarithmic Mahler measure of a polynomial can be written in an unexpectedly neat manner. To this end we examine polynomials defining rational curves, which allows their zero-locus to be parametrized. In these instances the unusual simplification is a consequence of the Galois descent property for Bloch groups. This principle enables one to explain why the arguments of the dilogarithm function depend only on the points where the rational curve intersects the torus |x|=|y|=1. In the process we also present a general method for computing the Mahler measure of any parametrizable polynomial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611159

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zbMATH Keywords

Mahler measureBloch groupBloch-Wigner dilogarithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55) PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure (11R06)

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