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Automated Discovery of New $L$-Function Relations

Authors :
Barral, Hadrien
Géraud-Stewart, Rémi
Léonard, Arthur
Naccache, David
Vermande, Quentin
Vivien, Samuel
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

$L$-functions typically encode interesting information about mathematical objects. This paper reports 29 identities between such functions that hitherto never appeared in the literature. Of these we have a complete proof for 9; all others are extensively numerically checked and we welcome proofs of their (in)validity. The method we devised to obtain these identities is a two-step process whereby a list of candidate identities is automatically generated, obtained, tested, and ultimately formally proven. The approach is however only \emph{semi-}automated as human intervention is necessary for the post-processing phase, to determine the most general form of a conjectured identity and to provide a proof for them. This work complements other instances in the literature where automated symbolic computation has served as a productive step toward theorem proving and can be extended in several directions further to explore the algebraic landscape of $L$-functions and similar constructions.

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Number Theory

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2206.03604
Document Type :
Working Paper