Weight restrictions for eulerian and zeta-like multizeta values

Let pp be the characteristic, let qq be the size of the finite field, and let a tuple have depth rr. Its weight is the sum of its components; call a tuple primitive when it is not obtained from another tuple by the relevant common power operation. Weight restrictions. The source conjectures: (1) an eulerian multizeta value in depth r>1r>1 can occur only in weights pm(qk1)p^m(q^k-1), with primitive ones only in weights q(q1)q(q-1) or qn1q^n-1 for q>2q>2, and in weights 2n12^n-1 and 2n2^n when q=2q=2; (2) when q=pq=p and r>1r>1, the weight of a zeta-like but non-eulerian tuple is pmp^m times a number with no zero digit and at most one digit equal to 11; (3) in depth rr, the smallest weight of a zeta-like value is qr1q^{r-1}; (4) for q>2q>2, the smallest weight of an eulerian value is qr1q^r-1, (q1)q(q-1)q, or q1q-1 according as r>2r>2, r=2r=2, or r=1r=1; and (5) weight qkq^k is not the weight of a primitive zeta-like tuple if k>r>3k>r>3, nor if k>3k>3 when r=3r=3 or r=2r=2.

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José Alejandro Lara Rodríguez and Dinesh S. Thakur, “Zeta-like Multizeta Values for F_q[t]”, arXiv:1312.4928 (2013).

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