Evaluation of the multiple zeta values \(\zeta(2,\ldots,2,3,2,\ldots,2)\). (English) Zbl 1268.11121

Zagier, Don

Ann. Math. (2) 175, No. 2, 977-1000 (2012).

Summary: A formula is given for the special multiple zeta values occurring in the title as rational linear combinations of products \(\zeta(m)\pi^{2n}\) with \(m\) odd. The existence of such a formula had been proved using motivic arguments by Francis Brown [Ann. Math. (2) 175, No. 2, 949–976 (2012; Zbl 1278.19008)], but the explicit formula (more precisely, certain 2-adic properties of its coefficients) were needed for his proof in [On the decomposition of motivic multiple zeta values, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1310] of the conjecture that all periods of mixed Tate motives over \(\mathbb{Z}\) are \(\mathbb{Q}[(2\pi i)^{\pm 1}]\)-linear combinations of multiple zeta values. The formula is proved indirectly, by computing the generating functions of both sides in closed form (one as the product of a sine function and a \({}_3F_2\)-hypergeometric function, and one as a sum of 14 products of sine functions and digamma functions) and then showing that both are entire functions of exponential growth and that they agree at sufficiently many points to force their equality. We also show that the space spanned by the multiple zeta values in question coincides with the space of double zeta values of odd weight and find a relation between this space and the space of cusp forms on the full modular group.

MSC:

11M32	Multiple Dirichlet series and zeta functions and multizeta values
33C20	Generalized hypergeometric series, \({}_pF_q\)

Keywords:

digamma functions; generalized hypergeometric functions; multiple zeta values

Citations:

Zbl 1278.19008

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