Milnor's conjecture on dilogarithm values at roots of unity

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For an integer N≥3N\geq 3, let D2D_2 denote the Bloch–Wigner dilogarithm, and consider the real numbers D2(e2π−1j/N)D_2(e^{2\pi\sqrt{-1}j/N}) indexed by integers jj relatively prime to NN with 0<j<N/20<j<N/2. Milnor's conjecture. For each integer N≥3N\geq 3, these real numbers are linearly independent over Q\mathbb{Q}. The conjecture is motivated by the interpretation of D2D_2 as the volume of an ideal tetrahedron and connects dilogarithm values with hyperbolic geometry and KK-theory; its resolution status is not specified in the source.

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Walter D. Neumann and Jun Yang, “Rationality problems for Chern-Simons invariants”, arXiv:math/9712225 (1997).

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