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In the recent works of a number of people there has emerged a beautiful new perspective on the arithmetic properties of Hodge structures. A central result in that development appears in a paper by Baldi, Klingler, and Ullmo. In this…
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Periods are numbers represented as integrals of rational functions over algebraic domains. A survey of their elementary properties is provided. Examples of periods includes Feynman Integrals from Quantum Physics and Multiple Zeta Values…
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