Resurgence of the fractional polylogarithms

DOI10.4310/MRL.2009.V16.N5.A5zbMATH Open1201.30044arXivmath/0701743OpenAlexW2142808179MaRDI QIDQ971478FDOQ971478

Authors: O. Costin, Stavros Garoufalidis 

Publication date: 14 May 2010

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The fractional polylogarithms, depending on a complex parameter $a$, are defined by a series which is analytic inside the unit disk. After an elementary conversion of the series into an integral presentation, we show that the fractional polylogarithms are multivalued analytic functions in the complex plane minus 0 and 1. For non-integer values of $a$, we prove the analytic continuation, compute the monodromy around 0 and 1, give a Mittag-Leffler decomposition and compute the asymptotic behavior for large values of the complex variable. The fractional polylogarithms are building blocks of resurgent functions that are used in proving that certain power series associated with knotted objects are resurgent. This is explained in a separate publication cite{CG3}. The motivic or physical interpretation of the monodromy of the fractional polylogarithms for non-integer values of $a$ is unknown to the authors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701743

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zbMATH Keywords

monodromyLambert functionAppell's equationMittag-Leffler decompositionrational polylogarithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Miscellaneous topics of analysis in the complex plane (30E99)

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