Irrationality of values of L-functions of Dirichlet characters

DOI10.1112/JLMS.12290zbMATH Open1448.11137arXiv1904.02402OpenAlexW3102802907WikidataQ126867060 ScholiaQ126867060MaRDI QIDQ3296758FDOQ3296758

Authors: Stéphane Fischler 

Publication date: 1 July 2020

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a recent paper with Sprang and Zudilin, the following result was proved: if $a$ is large enough in terms of $varepsilon>0$, then at least $2^{(1-varepsilon)fraclogalogloga}$ values of the Riemann zeta function at odd integers between $3$ and $a$ are irrational. This improves on the Ball-Rivoal theorem, that provides only $frac1-varepsilon1+log2loga$ such irrational values -- but with a stronger property: they are linearly independent over the rationals.In the present paper we generalize this recent result to both $L$-functions of Dirichlet characters and Hurwitz zeta function. The strategy is different and less elementary: the construction is related to a Pad'e approximation problem, and a generalization of Shidlovsky's lemma is used to apply Siegel's linear independence criterion. We also improve the analogue of the Ball-Rivoal theorem in this setting: we obtain $frac1-varepsilon1+log2loga$ linearly independent values $L(f,s)$ with $sleqa$ of a fixed parity, when $f$ is a Dirichlet character. The new point here is that the constant $1+log2$ does not depend on $f$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02402

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zbMATH Keywords

Hurwitz zeta functionRiemann zeta functionDirichlet characterlinear independenceirrationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Hurwitz and Lerch zeta functions (11M35) Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72)

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