The Lerch zeta function. III: Polylogarithms and special values

DOI10.1186/S40687-015-0049-2MaRDI QIDQ268404zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Wen-Ching Winnie Li

Publication date 15 April 2016

Published in Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06161

Hurwitz and Lerch zeta functions (11M35) Higher logarithm functions (33B30)

Abstract: This paper studies algebraic and analytic structures associated with the Lerch zeta function, extending the complex variables viewpoint taken in part II. The Lerch transcendent

P h i (s, z, c)

is obtained from the Lerch zeta function

z e t a (s, a, c)

by the change of variable

z = e^{2 p i i a}

. We show that it analytically continues to a maximal domain of holomorphy in three complex variables

(s, z, c)

as a multivalued function defined over the base manifold

. and compute the monodromy functions defining the multivaluedness. For positive integer values s=m and c=1 this function is closely related to the classical m-th order polylogarithm

L i_{m} (z)

We study its behavior as a function of two variables

(z, c)

for special values where s=m is an integer. For

m g e 1

it gives a one-parameter deformation of the polylogarithm, and satisfies a linear ODE with coefficients depending on c, of order m+1 of Fuchsian type. We determine its (m+1)-dimensional monodromy representation, which is a non-algebraic deformation of the monodromy of

L i_{m} (z) .

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