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In this paper, we establish some new identities of integrals involving multiple polylogarithm functions and their level two analogues in terms of Hurwitz-type multiple zeta (star) values. Using these identities, we provide new proofs of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Masanobu Kaneko , Weiping Wang , Ce Xu , Jianqiang Zhao

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we consider the classical Mordell--Tornheim zeta values and their alternating version. It is well-known that these values can be expressed as rational linear combinations of multiple zeta values…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Crystal Wang , Jianqiang Zhao

This paper concerns the $p$-adic multiple zeta values of integer indices that may contain zero or negative components. We introduce the admissibility and regularizability conditions for integer indices. We define the $p$-adic multiple zeta…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Ku-Yu Fan

We define finite multiple zeta values (FMZVs) associated with some combinatorial objects, which we call 2-colored rooted trees, and prove that FMZVs associated with 2-colored rooted trees satisfying certain mild assumptions can be written…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Masataka Ono

Zaremba's conjecture (1971) states that every positive integer number can be represented as a denominator (continuant) of a finit continued fraction with all partial quotients being bounded by an absolute constant A. Recently (in 2011)…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-22 I. D. Kan

Multiples zeta values (MZV's for short) in positive characteristic were introduced by Thakur as analogues of classical multiple zeta values of Euler. In this paper we give a systematic study of algebraic structures of MZV's in positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Bo-Hae Im , Hojin Kim , Khac Nhuan Le , Tuan Ngo Dac , Lan Huong Pham

Multiple zeta functions of Arakawa-Kaneko and Euler-Zagier types are known as generalizations of the Riemann zeta function. In 2018, Kaneko and Tsumura proved that the multiple zeta functions of Arakawa-Kaneko type can be expressed as a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Naho Kawasaki

In the large rank limit, for any nonexceptional affine algebra, the graded branching multiplicities known as one-dimensional sums, are conjectured to have a simple relationship with those of type A, which are known as generalized Kostka…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Shimozono

In this paper, we give elementary proofs of Zagier's formula for multiple zeta values involving Hoffman element and its odd variant due to Murakami. Zagier's formula was a key ingredient in the proof of Hoffman's conjecture. Moreover, using…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Li Lai , Cezar Lupu , Derek Orr

Let $\mathcal{S}$ denote the class of analytic and univalent ({\it i.e.}, one-to-one) functions $f(z)= z+\sum_{n=2}^{\infty}a_n z^n$ in the unit disk $\mathbb{D}=\{z\in \mathbb{C}:|z|<1\}$. For $f\in \mathcal{S}$, Ma proposed the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Vasudevarao Allu , Abhishek Pandey

Banks--Panzer--Pym have shown that the volume integrals appearing in Kontsevich's deformation quantization formula always evaluate to integer-linear combinations of multiple zeta values (MZVs). We prove a sort of converse, which they…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Kelvin Ritland

Let $p,x$ be real numbers, and $s$ be a complex number, with $\Re(s)>1-r$, $p\geq 1$, and $x+1>0$. The zeta function $Z^{\bf\alpha}_p(s;x)$ is defined by $$ Z^{\bf\alpha}_p(s;x) =\frac{1}{\Gamma(s)}\int^\infty_0 \frac{e^{-xt}}…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Kwang-Wu Chen

We prove that every multiple zeta value is a $\mathbb{Z}$-linear combination of $\zeta(k_1,\dots, k_r)$ where $k_i\geq 2$. Our proof also yields an explicit algorithm for such an expansion. The key ingredient is to introduce modified…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Minoru Hirose , Takumi Maesaka , Shin-ichiro Seki , Taiki Watanabe

Multiple modular values are a common generalisation of multiple zeta values and periods of modular forms, and are periods of a hypothetical Tannakian category of mixed modular motives. They are given by regularised iterated integrals on the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Francis Brown

We prove that the $\mathbb{Q}$-vector space generated by the multiple zeta values is generated by the finite real multiple zeta values introduced by Kaneko and Zagier.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Seidai Yasuda

The sum formula is one of the most well-known relations among multiple zeta values. This paper proves a conjecture of Kaneko predicting that an analogous formula holds for finite multiple zeta values.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Shingo Saito , Noriko Wakabayashi

In this paper, we completely classify the rational weights $k$ for which the Kaneko-Zagier (KZ) differential equation admits a fundamental system of solutions consisting of modular forms for a principal congruence subgroup $\Gamma(N)$. By…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yuichi Sakai , Hiroyuki Tsutsumi

We prove a kind of integral expressions for finite multiple harmonic sums and multiple zeta-star values. Moreover, we introduce a class of multiple integrals, associated with some combinatorial data (called 2-labeled posets). This class…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Shuji Yamamoto

In this paper we present some new identities for multiple polylogarithms (abbr. MPLs) and multiple harmonic star sums (abbr. MHSSs) by using the methods of iterated integral computations of logarithm functions. Then, by applying these…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Ce Xu

We study multiple zeta values (MZVs) from the viewpoint of zeta-functions associated with the root systems which we have studied in our previous papers. In fact, the $r$-ple zeta-functions of Euler-Zagier type can be regarded as the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-29 Yasushi Komori , Kohji Matsumoto , Hirofumi Tsumura