The hexagon equations for dilogarithms and the Riemann-Hilbert problem

Publication date: 22 January 2013

Abstract: In this article we present the hexagon equations for dilogarithms which come from the analytic continuation of the dilogarithm

m a t h r m {L i}_{2} (z)

to

{m a t h b f P}^{1} s e t m i n u s 0, 1, i n f t y

. The hexagon equations are equivalent to the coboundary relations for a certain 1-cocycle of holomorphic functions on

{m a t h b f P}^{1}

, and are solved by the Riemann-Hilbert problem of additive type. They uniquely characterize the dilogarithm under the normalization condition.

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