Goncharov's classical polylogarithm depth conjecture

Let FF be an infinite field. The truncated cobracket

δ ⁣:Lf(F)2Lf(F)\overline{\delta}\colon\mathcal{L}^{\mathrm{f}}(F)\longrightarrow\bigwedge^2\mathcal{L}^{\mathrm{f}}(F)

is obtained by omitting the L1(F)Ln1(F)\mathcal{L}_1(F)\wedge\mathcal{L}_{n-1}(F) component of the cobracket. Goncharov's classical polylogarithm conjecture. For n1n\geq1, an element xLnf(F)x\in\mathcal{L}^{\mathrm{f}}_n(F) is a linear combination of classical polylogarithms LinL(a)\operatorname{Li}^{\mathcal{L}}_n(a) for aF×a\in F^{\times} if and only if δ(x)=0\overline{\delta}(x)=0. The vanishing direction follows from the preceding lemma, while the converse is conjectural in general.

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Primary source

Steven Charlton, Andrei Matveiakin, Danylo Radchenko and Daniil Rudenko, “The Hopf algebra of formal multiple polylogarithms”, arXiv:2411.15071 (2025).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2001–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2405.13853, arXiv:2210.11938, arXiv:2208.01564, arXiv:math/0208144, arXiv:math/0103059.

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