Multiple zeta values, Padé approximation and Vasilyev's conjecture

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201309_009zbMATH Open1412.11104arXiv1309.2534OpenAlexW1599699446WikidataQ123021053 ScholiaQ123021053MaRDI QIDQ2807088FDOQ2807088

Authors: T. Rivoal, Stéphane Fischler 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

Published in: Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze. Serie V (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Sorokin gave in 1996 a new proof that pi is transcendental. It is based on a simultaneous Pad'e approximation problem involving certain multiple polylogarithms, which evaluated at the point 1 are multiple zeta values equal to powers of pi. In this paper we construct a Pad'e approximation problem of the same flavour, and prove that it has a unique solution up to proportionality. At the point 1, this provides a rational linear combination of 1 and multiple zeta values in an extended sense that turn out to be values of the Riemann zeta function at odd integers. As an application, we obtain a new proof of Vasilyev's conjecture for any odd weight, concerning the explicit evaluation of certain hypergeometric multiple integrals; it was first proved by Zudilin in 2003.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2534

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zbMATH Keywords

polylogarithmsVasilyev's conjecturesimultaneous Padé approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiple Dirichlet series and zeta functions and multizeta values (11M32) Hypergeometric integrals and functions defined by them ((E), (G), (H) and (I) functions) (33C60) Padé approximation (41A21) Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72)

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