Sharpness of standard and non-standard relations for multiple polylogarithm values

About 19 years old · traced to

Let NN be a level. Call NN standard if either N=1,2,3N=1,2,3 or N=pnN=p^n for a prime p≥5p\ge 5 and an integer n≥1n\ge 1; otherwise call it non-standard. Let d(w,N)d(w,N) denote the dimension of the space of multiple polylogarithm values of weight ww and level NN, and let MPV⁡(w,N)\operatorname{MPV}(w,N) denote that space. The standard relations are the relations already used to obtain the standard bounds, while non-standard relations are relations beyond them. Sharpness conjecture. If NN is a standard level, then the standard relations always provide the sharp bounds for d(w,N)d(w,N), so that all linear relations can be derived from the standard ones. If NN is a non-standard level, then the bound in Corollary 5.25 of the cited work is sharp, and non-standard relations exist in MPV⁡(w,N)\operatorname{MPV}(w,N) for all w≥3w\ge 3, and in MPV⁡(2,N)\operatorname{MPV}(2,N) if N≥10N\ge 10. This conjecture predicts that the currently known standard and non-standard relations completely determine the dimensions in the standard cases and that the stated additional relations occur in every non-standard case; the paper reports numerical and low-level evidence but does not establish the general claim.

References

Primary source

Jianqiang Zhao, “Multiple polylogarithm values at roots of unity”, arXiv:0810.1064 (2008).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2008). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0707.1459.

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.