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Families of self-inverse functions and dilogarithm identities

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2025-11-07 v2

Abstract

We introduce a self-inverse function via an integral equivalent to a two-term combination of dilogarithms. We refer to this function as a fundamental form, since there is a family of extensions of this function that satisfy similar self-inverse and symmetric properties. We also construct a family of functions generalizing the fundamental form via two auxiliary parameters, which we refer to as shape and scale factors. Through new integration techniques, we introduce and prove a variety of dilogarithm identities and evaluations for dilogarithm ladders and for two-term dilogarithm combinations. The functions\geminiab(x) \gemini_{a}^{b}(x) we introduce are referred to as gemini functions and may be seen as providing a broad framework in the derivation of and application of dilogarithm identities.

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@article{arxiv.2509.07598,
  title  = {Families of self-inverse functions and dilogarithm identities},
  author = {Lauri Alha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.07598},
  year   = {2025}
}

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88 pages, 14 figures