Semi-abelian analogues of Schanuel conjecture and applications.

In this article we study semi-abelian analogues of Schanuel conjecture. As showed by the first author, Schanuel conjecture is equivalent to the Generalized Period conjecture applied to 1-motives without abelian part. Extending her methods, the second, the third and the fourth authors have introduced the abelian analogue of Schanuel conjecture as the Generalized Period conjecture applied to 1-motives without toric part. As a first result of this paper, we define the semi-abelian analogue of Schanuel conjecture as the Generalized Period conjecture applied to 1-motives. C. Cheng et al. proved that Schanuel conjecture implies the algebraic independence of the values of the iterated exponential and the values of the iterated logarithm, answering a question of M. Waldschmidt. The second, the third and the fourth authors have investigated a similar question in the setup of abelian varieties: the Weak Abelian Schanuel conjecture implies the algebraic independence of the values of the iterated abelian exponential and the values of an iterated generalized abelian logarithm. The main result of this paper is that a Relative Semi-abelian conjecture implies the algebraic independence of the values of the iterated semi-abelian exponential and the values of an iterated generalized semi-abelian logarithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]