Riv. Mat. Univ. Parma, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2022

Carlo Viola [a]

Linear independence of periods

Pages: 243-266
Received: 20 August 2021
Accepted in revised form: 2 December 2021
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11J72, 11J82, 20B05, 32A10.
Keywords: Periods, irrationality, linear independence, permutation group method, saddle-point method.
Authors address:
[a]: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 5, 56127 Pisa, Italy.

Dedicated to Roberto Dvornicich on the occasion of his seventieth birthday

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Abstract: We present a survey on some classical and more recent results concerning irrationality or \(\mathbb Q\)-linear independence of periods. We also discuss the Rhin-Viola permutation group method, and the Pinna-Viola saddle-point method in \(\mathbb C^N\).

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