Mahler's measure and special values of L-functions

Experimental Mathematics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-82

  Boyd, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beilinson conjectures; Computation; Elliptic curve; L function; Mahler measure; Polynomials

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032219839     PISSN: 10586458     EISSN: 1944950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10586458.1998.10504357     Document Type: Article

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