Goncharov's classical polylogarithm depth conjecture

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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)∧Ln−1(F)\mathcal{L}_1(F)\wedge\mathcal{L}_{n-1}(F) component of the cobracket. Goncharov's classical polylogarithm conjecture. For n≥1n\geq1, an element x∈Lnf(F)x\in\mathcal{L}^{\mathrm{f}}_n(F) is a linear combination of classical polylogarithms Li⁡nL(a)\operatorname{Li}^{\mathcal{L}}_n(a) for a∈F×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.

References

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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