Multiple zeta values (MZVs, also called Euler sums or multiple harmonic series) are nested generalizations of the classical Riemann zeta function evaluated at integer values. The fact that an integral representation of MZVs obeys a shuue product rule allows the possibility of a combi-natorial approach to them. Using this approach we prove a longstanding conjecture of Don Zagier about MZVs with ...

BACKGROUND Although the Netherlands currently has its own procedure for evaluating chemical compounds and setting occupational exposure limits (OELs), most of these limits were originally adopted in the 1970s from threshold limit values (TLVs) set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, beginning in the late 1980s, criticism about non-scientific consid...

for any collection of positive integers s1, s2, . . . , sl. By definition, Lis(1) = ζ(s), s ∈ Z, s1 ≥ 2, s2 ≥ 1, . . . , sl ≥ 1. (4.2) Taking, as before for multiple zeta values, Lixs(z) := Lis(z), Li1(z) := 1, (4.3) let us extend action of the map Li : w 7→ Liw(z) by linearity on the graded algebra H (not H, since multi-indices are coded by words in H). Lemma 4.1. Let w ∈ H be an arbitrary non...

It is now a good time to go back to the MZV story. where F (a, b; c; z) denotes the hypergeometric function and i = √ −1. Proof. Routine verification (with a help of Lemma 4.1 for the left-hand side) shows that the both sides of the required equality are annihilated by action of the differential operator (1 − z) d dz 2 z d dz 2 − t 4 ; in addition, the first terms in z-expansions of the both si...

We introduce a q-analog of the multiple harmonic series commonly referred to as multiple zeta values. The multiple q-zeta values satisfy a q-stuffle multiplication rule analogous to the stuffle multiplication rule arising from the series representation of ordinary multiple zeta values. Additionally, multiple q-zeta values can be viewed as special values of the multiple q-polylogarithm, which ad...

In this paper, we formally introduce the notion of Apéry-like sums and show that every multiple zeta values can be expressed as a Z-linear combination them. We even describe natural way to do so. This allows us put in new theoretical context several identities scattered literature, well discover many interesting ones. give paper integral formulas for sums. They enable short direct proof Zagier'...