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On a Conjecture of Chowla and Milnor
Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 63 (2011) no. 6, pp. 1328-1344

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In this paper, we investigate a conjecture due to S. and P. Chowla and its generalization by Milnor. These are related to the delicate question of non-vanishing of $L$ -functions associated to periodic functions at integers greater than 1. We report on some progress in relation to these conjectures. In a different vein, we link them to a conjecture of Zagier on multiple zeta values and also to linear independence of polylogarithms.
DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2011-034-2
Mots-clés : 11F20, 11F11 
Gun, Sanoli; Murty, M. Ram; Rath, Purusottam. On a Conjecture of Chowla and Milnor. Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 63 (2011) no. 6, pp. 1328-1344. doi: 10.4153/CJM-2011-034-2
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