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Geometric families of multiple elliptic Gamma functions and arithmetic applications, II

Number Theory 2026-02-09 v1

Abstract

This is the second paper in a series where we study arithmetic applications of the multiple elliptic Gamma functions originated in mathematical physics. In the first article in this series we defined geometric families of these functions and proved that these families satisfied coboundary relations involving an attached collection of Bernoulli rational functions. The main purpose of the present paper is to show that smoothed versions of our geometric elliptic Gamma functions give rise to partial modular symbols for congruence subgroups of SLn(Z)\mathrm{SL}_{n}(\mathbb{Z}) for n2n \geq 2 which restrict to (n2)(n-2)-cocycles on tori in SLn(Z)\mathrm{SL}_{n}(\mathbb{Z}) coming from groups of totally positive units in number fields. To achieve this, we show that the associated smoothed Bernoulli rational functions reduce to smoothed higher Dedekind sums with uniformly bounded denominators.

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@article{arxiv.2602.06561,
  title  = {Geometric families of multiple elliptic Gamma functions and arithmetic applications, II},
  author = {Pierre L. L. Morain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06561},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

39 pages plus references. This is the second paper in a series of 3 which supersede arXiv:2406.06094. The first article in this series is arXiv:2510.16515