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Zagier-Hoffman's conjectures in positive characteristic II

Number Theory 2024-02-20 v1

Abstract

Zagier-Hoffman's conjectures predict the dimension and a basis for the Q\mathbb Q-vector spaces spanned by NNth cyclotomic multiple zeta values (MZV's) of fixed weight where NN is a natural number. For N=1N=1 (MZV's case), half of these conjectures have been solved by the work of Terasoma, Deligne-Goncharov and Brown with the help of Zagier's identity. The other half are completely open. For N=2N=2 (alternating MZV's case) and N=3,4,8N=3,4,8, Deligne-Goncharov and Deligne solved the same half of these conjectures for NNth-cyclotomic MZV's. For other values of NN, no sharp upper bound on the dimension is known. In this paper we completely establish, for all NN, Zagier-Hoffman's conjectures for NNth cyclotomic multiple zeta values in positive characteristic. By working with the tower of all cyclotomic extensions, we present a proof that is uniform on NN and give an effective algorithm to express any cyclotomic multiple zeta value in the chosen basis. This generalizes all previous work on these conjectures for MZV's and alternating MZV's in positive characteristic.

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@article{arxiv.2402.11539,
  title  = {Zagier-Hoffman's conjectures in positive characteristic II},
  author = {Bo-Hae Im and Hojin Kim and Khac Nhuan Le and Tuan Ngo Dac and Lan Huong Pham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11539},
  year   = {2024}
}

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45 pages

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