Zagier's conjecture on the 2-adic valuations of Laurent coefficients

Let m=2nm0m=2^n m_0, where m0m_0 is odd, and let u=u2 u= u_2 denote the 2-adic valuation. Define u((k)!) u((k)!) by the 2-adic valuation of the factorial. Zagier's conjecture. For the Laurent coefficients bmb_m of the exterior Riemann mapping function, the following identities hold: if n=0n=0, then u(bm)=u((2m+2)!)- u(b_m)= u((2m+2)!); if n=1n=1, then

u(bm)=u(((2m+2)/3)!)+ϵ(m0),- u(b_m)= u(((2m+2)/3)!)+\epsilon(m_0),

where ϵ(m0)=0\epsilon(m_0)=0 if m011(mod12)m_0\equiv11\pmod{12} and ϵ(m0)=1\epsilon(m_0)=1 otherwise; and if n=2n=2, then

u(bm)=u(((2m25)/7)!)+ϵ(m0),- u(b_m)= u(((2m-25)/7)!)+\epsilon(m_0),

where ϵ(m0)\epsilon(m_0) has period 2828. These formulas refine the known upper bound u(bm)u((2m+2)!)- u(b_m)\leq u((2m+2)!), with equality for odd mm, and describe the observed periodic structure of the denominator exponents; the stated patterns for n=1n=1 and n=2n=2 remain conjectural.

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Filippo Beretta, Jesse Dimino, Weike Fang, Thomas C. Martinez, Steven J. Miller and Daniel Stoll, “On Benford's Law and the Coefficients of the Riemann Mapping Function for the Exterior of the Mandelbrot Set”, arXiv:2206.04112 (2023).

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