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Shuffle relations for Hodge and motivic correlators

Algebraic Geometry 2020-03-17 v1

Abstract

The Hodge correlators CorH(z0,z1,,zn){\rm Cor}_{\mathcal H}(z_0,z_1,\dots,z_n) are functions of several complex variables, defined by Goncharov (arXiv:0803.0297) by an explicit integral formula. They satisfy some linear relations: dihedral symmetry relations, distribution relations, and shuffle relations. We found new second shuffle relations. When zi0μNz_i\in0\cup\mu_N, where μN\mu_N are the NN-th roots of unity, they are expected to give almost all relations. When ziz_i run through a finite subset SS of C\mathbb C, the Hodge correlators describe the real mixed Hodge-Tate structure on the pronilpotent completion of the fundamental group π1nil(CP1(S),v)\pi_1^{\rm nil}(\mathbb{CP}^1-(S\cup\infty),v_\infty), a Lie algebra in the category of mixed Q\mathbb Q-Hodge-Tate structures. The Hodge correlators are lifted to canonical elements CorHod(z0,,zn){\rm Cor_{Hod}}(z_0,\dots,z_n) in the Tannakian Lie coalgebra of this category. We prove that these elements satisfy the second shuffle relations. Let SQS\subset\overline{\mathbb Q}. The pronilpotent fundamental group is the Betti realization of the motivic fundamental group, a Lie algebra in the category of mixed Tate motives over Q\overline{\mathbb Q}. The Hodge correlators are lifted to elements CorMot(z0,,zn){\rm Cor_{Mot}}(z_0,\dots,z_n) in its Tannakian Lie coalgebra LieMT\rm Lie_{MT}^\vee. We prove the second shuffle relations for these motivic elements. The universal enveloping algebra of LieMT\rm Lie_{MT}^\vee was described by Goncharov via motivic multiple polylogarithms, which obey a similar yet different set of double shuffle relations. Motivic correlators have several advantages: they obey dihedral symmetry relations at all points, not only at roots of unity; they are defined for any curve, and the double shuffle relations admit a generalization to elliptic curves; and they describe elements of the motivic Lie coalgebra rather than its universal enveloping algebra.

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@article{arxiv.2003.06521,
  title  = {Shuffle relations for Hodge and motivic correlators},
  author = {Nikolay Malkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06521},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

52 pages, 14 figures

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