Integrals over polytopes, multiple zeta values and polylogarithms, and Euler's constant

DOI10.1134/S0001434608090290MaRDI QIDQ2518079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Sondow, S. A. Zlobin

Publication date 12 January 2009

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0732

zbMATH Keywords

Abel summabilityalgebraic independence of numbersgamma functionmeromorphic functionmultiple zeta valuepolylogarithmpolytopeRiemann zeta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiple Dirichlet series and zeta functions and multizeta values (11M32) Higher logarithm functions (33B30)

Abstract: Let $T$ be the triangle with vertices (1,0), (0,1), (1,1). We study certain integrals over $T$, one of which was computed by Euler. We give expressions for them both as a linear combination of multiple zeta values, and as a polynomial in single zeta values. We obtain asymptotic expansions of the integrals, and of sums of certain multiple zeta values with constant weight. We also give related expressions for Euler's constant. In the final section, we evaluate more general integrals -- one is a Chen (Drinfeld-Kontsevich) iterated integral -- over some polytopes that are higher-dimensional analogs of $T$. This leads to a relation between certain multiple polylogarithm values and multiple zeta values.

Review text

The integral \(I_n=\int_0^1\int_{1-y}^1\frac{(-\ln xy)^n}{xy}\,dx\,dy\) is shown to be a sum of multiple zeta values, \(I_n=n!\sum_{k=0}^n\zeta(n-k+2,\{1\}_k)\), and \(I_n=P(\zeta(2),\zeta(3),\dots,\zeta(n+2))\) for some polynomial with rational coefficients, which is explicitly given in the restatement of Theorem 1 on page 573. Combining this, it allows an expression for \(\zeta(n,\{1\}_k)\) as a polynomial in \(\zeta(2),\dots,\zeta(n+k)\) with rational coefficients, and the interesting relation \(\zeta(k+2,\{1\}_l)=\zeta(l+2,\{1\}_k)\). The asymptotic expansion \(\frac{I_n}{n!}\sim\sum_{k=1}^\infty\binom{2k}{k}\frac1{k^{n+2}}\) is derived. A formula for \(I_{-1}\) is derived, and a similar formula for Euler's constant \(\gamma\). The authors discuss a number of examples.

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