{ "id": "math/0310062", "version": "v1", "published": "2003-10-05T22:35:36.000Z", "updated": "2003-10-05T22:35:36.000Z", "title": "Multiple Polylogarithms: A Brief Survey", "authors": [ "Douglas Bowman", "David M. Bradley" ], "comment": "22 pages, in \"Proceedings of a Conference on q-Series with Applications to Combinatorics, Number Theory and Physics,\" (Bruce C. Berndt and Ken Ono eds.) American Mathematical Society, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 291, 2001, pp. 71-92. [MR #2003c:33021]", "journal": "pp. 71--92 in \"q-series with applications to combinatorics, number theory, and physics\" (Urbana, Illinois, 2000), Contemporary Mathematics Vol. 291, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2001. MR1874522 (2003c:33021)", "categories": [ "math.CA", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We survey various results and conjectures concerning multiple polylogarithms and the multiple zeta function. Among the results, we announce our resolution of several conjectures on multiple zeta values. We also provide a new integral representation for the general multiple polylogarithm, and develop a q-analogue of the shuffle product.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2003-10-05T22:35:36.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "33E20", "11G55", "11M99", "40B05" ], "keywords": [ "brief survey", "multiple zeta function", "multiple zeta values", "general multiple polylogarithm", "conjectures concerning multiple polylogarithms" ], "tags": [ "conference paper", "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 22, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2003math.....10062B" } } }