Sharpness of standard and non-standard relations for multiple polylogarithm values
Let be a level. Call standard if either or for a prime and an integer ; otherwise call it non-standard. Let denote the dimension of the space of multiple polylogarithm values of weight and level , and let 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 is a standard level, then the standard relations always provide the sharp bounds for , so that all linear relations can be derived from the standard ones. If is a non-standard level, then the bound in Corollary 5.25 of the cited work is sharp, and non-standard relations exist in for all , and in if . 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.
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