Zagier's conjecture on polylogarithms
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Statement
Let be an algebraic number field with real embeddings, pairs of complex conjugate non-real embeddings and discriminant , and let . Let if is odd and if is even. Let be the embeddings consisting of one from each complex pair, together with the real embeddings when is odd. Let be the polylogarithm of order . Zagier's single-valued polylogarithm is It extends to a continuous function on with for . Here is the real part for odd and the imaginary part for even. The are the Bernoulli numbers, with . Extend additively to the free abelian group on the elements of . Then there are and with where for odd and for even, and is the Dedekind zeta function.
Remarks
Zagier's conjecture is sharper than this existence statement. He defined subgroups of by conditions that generalise the Bloch group, and conjectured that the can be taken in . He also conjectured that on these groups computes the Borel regulator on .
For , is the Bloch–Wigner function, and the conjecture follows from Borel's theorem and the work of Bloch and Suslin; see dilogarithm and K3. Goncharov proved the case . For and odd, , so the formula holds with , and .
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| Tag | 3ZAPNS8QNV |
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| URI | m2://3ZAPNS8QNV |
| Kind | conjecture |
| Writing | W0 stub |
| MSC | 11G55, 11R42, 19F27 |
| Status | This copy of the site has no build data. Run m2 status 3ZAPNS8QNV. |
| About | Polylogarithm, Dedekind zeta function |
| Uses | Polylogarithm, Bernoulli number, Dedekind zeta function, Algebraic number field, Discriminant of a number field |
| Changed | 3 November 2026 |
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