An odd variant of multiple zeta values
Abstract
For positive integers with , we define the multiple -value as the sum of those terms in the usual infinite series for the multiple zeta value with odd denominators. Like the multiple zeta values, the multiple -values can be multiplied according to the rules of the harmonic algebra. Using this fact, we obtain explicit formulas for multiple -values of repeated arguments analogous to those known for multiple zeta values. Multiple -values can be written as rational linear combinations of the alternating or "colored" multiple zeta values. Using known results for colored multiple zeta values, we obtain tables of multiple -values through weight 7, suggesting some interesting conjectures, including one that the dimension of the rational vector space generated by weight- multiple -values has dimension equal to the th Fibonacci number. We express the generating function of the height one multiple -values in terms of a generalized hypergeometric function. We also define alternating multiple -values and prove some results about them.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.05232,
title = {An odd variant of multiple zeta values},
author = {Michael E. Hoffman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05232},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
v1(Dec 2016): preliminary version. v2(Aug 2017): corrections. v3(Sept 2017): new section on generating functions added. v4(Aug 2018): new introduction, conjecture of B. Saha added, last section replaced by a new one on alternating multiple t-values v5(Jan 2019): corrections, new appendix expressing multiple t-values in terms of Saha elements through weight 7