Boyd and Rodriguez Villegas's Mahler measure identity for a conductor-15 elliptic curve

Let m(P)m(P) denote the Mahler measure of a Laurent polynomial PP. Let EE be the elliptic curve

E:(1+x)(1+y)(1+1x)(1+1y)=1,E: (1+x)(1+y)(1+\frac{1}{x})(1+\frac{1}{y})=1,

which has conductor 1515. Boyd and Rodriguez Villegas's conjecture. The Mahler measure satisfies

m((1+x)(1+y)+z)=2L(E,1).m((1+x)(1+y)+z)=-2L'(E,-1).

This identity is presented as an example of the expected relationship between Mahler measures of exact polynomials and special values of LL-functions, motivated by Beilinson's conjectures and work of Boyd and Rodriguez Villegas. The question mark in the source indicates that the equality is conjectural.

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Primary source

François Brunault, “On the Mahler measure of (1+x)(1+y)+z”, arXiv:2305.02992 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2009.07614.

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