Irrationality of some p-adic L-values

Irrationality of some p-adic L-values

We give a proof of the irrationality of the p-adic zeta-values ζp(k) for p = 2, 3 and k = 2, 3. Such results were recently obtained by F.Calegari as an application of overconvergent p-adic modular forms. In this paper we present an approach using classical continued fractions discovered by Stieltjes. In addition we show irrationality of some other p-adic L-series values, and values of the p-adi...

Irrationality of Certain p - adic Periods for Small p

Apéry’s proof [13] of the irrationality of ζ(3) is now over 25 years old, and it is perhaps surprising that his methods have not yielded any significant new results (although further progress has been made on the irrationality of zeta values [1, 14]). Shortly after the initial proof, Beukers produced two elegant reinterpretations of Apéry’s arguments; the first using iterated integrals and Lege...

p-ADIC PERIODS, p-ADIC L-FUNCTIONS, AND THE p-ADIC UNIFORMIZATION OF SHIMURA CURVES

Some p-adic differential equations

We investigate various properties of p-adic differential equations which have as a solution an analytic function of the form Fk(x) = ∑ n≥0 n!Pk(n)x , where Pk(n) = n +Ck−1n k−1+· · ·+C0 is a polynomial in n with Ci ∈ Z (in a more general case Ci ∈ Q or Ci ∈ Cp) , and the region of convergence is | x |p< p 1 p−1 . For some special classes of Pk(n), as well as for the general case, the existence ...

Multivariate P-adic L-function

In the recent, many mathematicians studied the multiple zeta function in the complex number field. In this paper we construct the p-adic analogue of multiple zeta function which interpolates the generalized multiple Bernoulli numbers attached to χ at negative integers. §1. Introduction Let p be a fixed prime. Throughout this paper Z p , Q p , C and C p will, respectively, denote the ring of p-a...