The dilogarithm in algebraic fields

Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society

L. Lewin¹ 

关键词: 33 A 70;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S1446788700018747

学科分类：数学（综合）

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

Special numerical formulae for the dilogarithm of powers of a base quantity have been shown to exist by Watson, Coxeter and others. Abel's equation for the dilogarithm was put in this “exponent” form, as a result of which a four-variable, symmetrical equation, also in exponent form, was deduced. From these equations a large number of special numerical results were produced, from which certain properties of a general structural nature emerged, and enabled two new results to be predicted.The algebraic bases for these results can be grouped in trigonometric or non-trigonometric form, and for the former it seems to be necessary to examine the properties of the dilogarithm in the complex plane. Even so, there are some identities that seem to be outside the scope of the present methods.It is speculated that certain factorization relations, which can be identified from the equations, may play a substantial role in the results; but so far no analytic derivation of this property has appeared possible.

【 授权许可】

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