What is a period ?
Number Theory
2014-07-10 v1
Abstract
This is an essay about Kontsevich-Zagier periods and their relation to mixed motives a la Madhav Nori.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.2388,
title = {What is a period ?},
author = {Stefan Müller-Stach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2388},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
To appear in the Notices of the AMS, September 2014