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Multiple polylogarithms in weight 4

Number Theory 2016-09-20 v1 Mathematical Physics K-Theory and Homology math.MP

Abstract

We clarify the relationship between different multiple polylogarithms in weight~4 by writing suitable linear combinations of a given type of iterated integral I_{n_1,...,n_d}(z_1,...,z_d), in depth d>1 and weight \sum_i n_i=4 in terms of the classical tetralogarithm Li_4. In the process, we prove a statement conjectured by Goncharov which can be rephrased as writing the sum of iterated integrals I_{3,1}(V(x,y),z), where V(x,y) denotes a formal version of the five term relation for the dilogarithm, in terms of Li_4-terms (we need 122 such).

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@article{arxiv.1609.05557,
  title  = {Multiple polylogarithms in weight 4},
  author = {Herbert Gangl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05557},
  year   = {2016}
}

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