Parity conjecture for multiple Hurwitz polylogarithms

Let r>1r>1, let x1,,xrx_1,\ldots,x_r be roots of unity, let aCZa\in\mathbb{C}\setminus\mathbb{Z}, and let k1,,kr1k_1,\ldots,k_r\geq1 with (kr,xr)(1,1)(k_r,x_r)\neq(1,1). Parity conjecture. The combination

Lik1,,kr(x1,,xr;a)+(1)k1++krx1x2xrLik1,,kr(x11,,xr1;1a)\operatorname{Li}_{k_1,\ldots,k_r}(x_1,\ldots,x_r;a)+(-1)^{k_1+\cdots+k_r}x_1x_2\cdots x_r\operatorname{Li}_{k_1,\ldots,k_r}(x_1^{-1},\ldots,x_r^{-1};1-a)

can be expressed as a rational linear combination of multiple Hurwitz polylogarithm functions of depth less than rr. This proposes a parity reduction for arbitrary depth; the source presents it as conjectural and notes that known cyclotomic multiple tt-value conjectures give special cases.

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Primary source

Hongyuan Rui, “Contour Integrations and Parity Results of Hurwitz-type Cyclotomic Euler Sums”, arXiv:2601.00035 (2025).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2509.17468, arXiv:2509.06706, arXiv:2208.09593, arXiv:2009.10774, arXiv:2003.07168.

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