Relating Mahler measures and Dirichlet $L$-values: new evidence for Chinburg's conjectures
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| author | Hokken, David Mehrabdollahei, Mahya Ringeling, Berend |
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| contents | Let $χ_{-f}$ be the odd quadratic Dirichlet character of conductor $f$, and let $\mathrm{m}(P)$ denote the Mahler measure of a polynomial $P$. In 1984, Chinburg conjectured that for any such $χ_{-f}$ there exist an integral bivariate rational function $P$ (and, in the strong form, an integral polynomial) such that $\mathrm{m}(P)$ is a rational multiple of $L'(χ_{-f},-1)$. The strong form of the conjecture was previously known to hold for $18$ values of $f$. We double the number of numerical examples, giving $8$ new instances of the strong and $18$ new instances of the weak conjecture. Our examples arise from an explicit approach, which also captures almost all of the previously known results, and is based on work of Boyd and Rodriguez-Villegas. Moreover, we prove Chinburg's weak conjecture if we allow cyclotomic coefficients. |
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| spellingShingle | Relating Mahler measures and Dirichlet $L$-values: new evidence for Chinburg's conjectures Hokken, David Mehrabdollahei, Mahya Ringeling, Berend Number Theory 11R06 Let $χ_{-f}$ be the odd quadratic Dirichlet character of conductor $f$, and let $\mathrm{m}(P)$ denote the Mahler measure of a polynomial $P$. In 1984, Chinburg conjectured that for any such $χ_{-f}$ there exist an integral bivariate rational function $P$ (and, in the strong form, an integral polynomial) such that $\mathrm{m}(P)$ is a rational multiple of $L'(χ_{-f},-1)$. The strong form of the conjecture was previously known to hold for $18$ values of $f$. We double the number of numerical examples, giving $8$ new instances of the strong and $18$ new instances of the weak conjecture. Our examples arise from an explicit approach, which also captures almost all of the previously known results, and is based on work of Boyd and Rodriguez-Villegas. Moreover, we prove Chinburg's weak conjecture if we allow cyclotomic coefficients. |
| title | Relating Mahler measures and Dirichlet $L$-values: new evidence for Chinburg's conjectures |
| topic | Number Theory 11R06 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20820 |