Mahler measures and modular funs

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Speaker: 

Zudilin, Wadim

Affiliation: 
University of Newcastle

Abstract

In my talk I will report on my recent work with Mat Rogers towards Boyd's conjectural evaluations of Mahler measures of 2-variate polynomials. Although the grounds for these conjectures come from K-theory, our technique is completely analytical and even elementary. One of the crucial ingredients of our proofs is numerous identities between the signature 3 theta functions, the subject developed in many works of Jonathan Borwein and his collaborators.

Video: 

Details

Date & Time: 
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 16:00 - 16:30
Venue/Room: 
ASB 10900