A study of inverse trigonometric integrals associated with three-variable Mahler measures, and some related identities

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2006.02.007MaRDI QIDQ863292zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mathew Rogers

Publication date 26 January 2007

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601082

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic functionsMahler measurepolylogarithmsspecial functionstrilogarithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55) Measures of irrationality and of transcendence (11J82) Higher logarithm functions (33B30) Basic hypergeometric functions in one variable, ({}_rphi_s) (33D15)

Abstract: We prove several identities relating three-variable Mahler measures to integrals of inverse trigonometric functions. After deriving closed forms for most of these integrals, we obtain ten explicit formulas for three-variable Mahler measures. Several of these results generalize formulas due to Condon and Lal'in. As a corollary, we also obtain three $q$-series expansions for the dilogarithm.

Review text

The Mahler measure of a polynomial \(P(x_1,\dots,x_{n})\), \(M(P),\) is defined as the geometric mean of \(P\) over the \(n\)-torus, and \(m(P)=\log M(P).\) The values of \(m(P),\) where \(P\) is a polynomial with rational coefficients, are studied for some time already. The first result in this direction is Smyth's 1981 formulae \(m(1+x+y+z)=7\zeta(3)/(2\pi^2).\) Later, many other formulas of this type were obtained by Boyd, Smyth, Rodriguez Villegas, Lalin, Vandervelde, Condon and others. In this paper, the author studies some special inverse trigonometric integrals. As an application of his method, he recovers some known and obtains new, more general, expressions for \(m(P)\) with some three-variable polynomials \(P.\) For example, in Corollary 3.3 he proves that \[ m(x+(1+x)^2+(1+x+y)^2z)=28\zeta(3)/(5\pi^2)+\log((1+\sqrt{5})/2). \] He also studies the dilogarithm \(L_2(z)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} z^n/n^2\) function and obtains an explicit expression for this function in terms of double \(q\)-series expansion. As an application, he computes the Mahler measure of the Laurent polynomial \(4/k+x+1/x+y+1/y\) in terms of some special integrals. The techniques used in this paper are based on some manipulation with various integrals and infinite series.

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