On Andr\'e periods of mixed Tate motives
Algebraic Geometry
2026-05-18 v2
Abstract
In this note, we show that the -adic periods of motives introduced recently by Ancona and Fr\u{a}\c{t}il\u{a} (``Andr\'e periods'') reduce to the classically studied notion in the case of Mixed Tate motives. We also connect Andr\'e periods with Coleman integration by observing that the Frobenius-fixed de Rham paths of Besser and Vologodsky come from motivic paths in characteristic (unconditionally in the mixed Tate setting, conditionally in general). We use this to realize special values of -adic multiple polylogarithms as Andr\'e periods in a concrete way.
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@article{arxiv.2502.17404,
title = {On Andr\'e periods of mixed Tate motives},
author = {Ishai Dan-Cohen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.17404},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Numerous improvements, primarily to exposition, based on referee reports. To appear in Publicacions Matem\`atiques