Deligne's period conjecture for superelliptic curve motivic pieces

Let C/Q(ζm)C/\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_m) be a superelliptic curve ym=f(x)y^m=f(x) as in the paper, let τ\tau be a character of CmC_m, and fix an embedding Q(ζm)C\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_m)\hookrightarrow\mathbb{C}. For each σGal(Q(τ)/Q)\sigma\in\operatorname{Gal}(\mathbb{Q}(\tau)/\mathbb{Q}), let ΩCσ(τ)\Omega_{C^{\sigma(\tau)}} denote the corresponding period. Deligne's period conjecture for superelliptic pieces. There exists L(Cτ)Q(ζm)\mathcal{L}(C^\tau)\in\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_m) such that

L(Cσ(τ),1)=ΩCσ(τ)σ(L(Cτ)).L(C^{\sigma(\tau)},1)=\Omega_{C^{\sigma(\tau)}}\cdot\sigma(\mathcal{L}(C^\tau)).

This is the specialization of Deligne's period conjecture that the paper investigates for superelliptic curves. The authors report numerical verification for previously uninvestigated motivic-piece LL-functions, while the assertion itself remains conjectural.

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Harry Spencer, “Motivic pieces of curves: L-functions and periods”, arXiv:2601.21934 (2026).

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