Multiple $q$-Zeta Values

The multiple zeta values (MZVs) have been studied extensively in recent years. Currently there exist a few different types of $q$-analogs of the MZVs ($q$-MZVs) defined and studied by mathematicians and physicists. In this paper, we give a uniform treatment of these $q$-MZVs by considering their double shuffle relations (DBSFs) and duality relations. The main idea is a modification and generalization of the one used by Castillo Medina et al. who have considered the DBSFs of a...

We construct a q-analogue of truncated version of symmetric multiple zeta values which satisfies the double shuffle relation. Using it, we define a q-analogue of symmetric multiple zeta values and see that it satisfies many of the same relations as symmetric multiple zeta values, which are the inverse relation and a part of the double shuffle relation and the Ohno-type relation.

For a pair of positive integers $n,k$ with $n\geq 2$, in this paper we prove that $$ \sum_{r=1}^k\sum_{|\bf\alpha|=k}{k\choose\bf\alpha} \zeta(n\bf\alpha)=\zeta(n)^k =\sum^k_{r=1}\sum_{|\bf\alpha|=k} {k\choose\bf\alpha}(-1)^{k-r}\zeta^\star(n\bf\alpha), $$ where $\bf\alpha=(\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\ldots,\alpha_r)$ is a $r$-tuple of positive integers. Moreover, we give an application to combinatorics and get the following identity: $$ \sum^{2k}_{r=1}r!{2k\brace r}=\sum^k_{p=1}\sum^...

This work is an example driven overview article of recent works on the connection of multiple zeta values, modular forms and q-analogues of multiple zeta values given by multiple Eisenstein series.

In this paper, we define and study a variant of multiple zeta values of level 2 (which is called multiple mixed values or multiple $M$-values, MMVs for short), which forms a subspace of the space of alternating multiple zeta values. This variant includes both Hoffman's multiple $t$-values and Kaneko-Tsumura's multiple $T$-values as special cases. We set up the algebra framework for the double shuffle relations (DBSFs) of the MMVs, and exhibits nice properties such as duality,...

Recently, the present authors jointly with Tauraso found a family of binomial identities for multiple harmonic sums (MHS) on strings $(\{2\}^a,c,\{2\}^b)$ that appeared to be useful for proving new congruences for MHS as well as new relations for multiple zeta values. Very recently, Zhao generalized this set of MHS identities to strings with repetitions of the above patterns and, as an application, proved the two-one formula for multiple zeta star values conjectured by Ohno a...

We prove a new linear relation for a q-analogue of multiple zeta values. It is a q-extension of the restricted sum formula obtained by Eie, Liaw and Ong for multiple zeta values.

It is conjectured that the regularized double shuffle relations give all algebraic relations among the multiple zeta values, and hence all other algebraic relations should be deduced from the regularized double shuffle relations. In this paper, we provide as many as the relations which can be derived from the regularized double shuffle relations, for example, the weighted sum formula of L. Guo and B. Xie, some evaluation formulas with even arguments and the restricted sum for...

In this paper we define the generalized q-analogues of Euler sums and present a new family of identities for q-analogues of Euler sums by using the method of Jackson q-integral rep- resentations of series. We then apply it to obtain a family of identities relating quadratic Euler sums to linear sums and q-polylogarithms. Furthermore, we also use certain stuffle products to evaluate several q-series with q-harmonic numbers. Some interesting new results and illustrative example...

According to Hoffman's (2,3)-conjecture, the so-called double shuffle relations should imply that every multiple zeta value should express effectively in terms of multizetas whose entries are equal to either 2 or 3, with some explicitly computable rational coefficients. In February 2011, the existence of such Q-linear combinations was established by Francis Brown in all weights. Still, a desire exists to have effective access to these coefficients. In 2008, Masanobu Kaneko, M...