Dilogarithm identities for solutions to Pell's equation in terms of continued fraction convergents

DOI10.1007/S11139-020-00316-4MaRDI QIDQ829643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Bridgeman

Publication date 6 May 2021

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04074

zbMATH Keywords

dilogarithmidentitiesPell's equationhyperbolic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Higher logarithm functions (33B30)

Abstract: In this paper we give describe a new connection between the dilogarithm function and solutions to Pell's equation $x^2-n{y}^2=pm1$. For each solution $x,y$ to Pell's equation we obtain a dilogarithm identity whose terms are given by the continued fraction expansion of the associated unit $$. We further show that Ramanujan's dilogarithm value-identities correspond to an identity for the regular ideal hyperbolic hexagon.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1336416
• Pell equation: a revisit through periodic \(\mathcal{F}_{2^l}\)-continued fractions
• Generalized continued fractions in real quadratic fields and Pell's equations
• On convergents of certain values of continued Tasoev fractions associated with Diophantine equations
• Continued fractions and Diophantine equations in positive characteristic
• Solving Pell equations via reduced regular continued fractions
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7400768
• Diophantine approximation and continued fractions in power series fields
• Certain identities for a continued fraction of Eisenstein

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 51347 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 51575 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 492966 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2115007 (Why is no real title available?)
• A dilogarithm identity on moduli spaces of curves
• Hyperbolic volume of manifolds with geodesic boundary and orthospectra
• On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants
• Orthospectra of geodesic laminations and dilogarithm identities on moduli space
• Scissors congruences. II
• Simple geodesics and Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces
• Simple geodesics and a series constant over Teichmüller space
• The Dilogarithm Function
• The Orthogonal Spectrum of a Hyperbolic Manifold

Cited in

(1)

• Dilogarithm identities after Bridgeman

This page was built for publication: Dilogarithm identities for solutions to Pell's equation in terms of continued fraction convergents

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q829643)