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New series for $\pi$ from string theory

This is a direct followup to the post Possible new series for $\pi$ by Timothy Chow and its numerous answers and comments. Using another formula in the same string theory paper by Saha and Sinha one ...
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Possible Context for this "Siegel-like" Modular Form Construction?

The following construction of something very nearly a Siegel modular form of degree 2 arose in my research. I'm outside the worlds of automorphic forms and number theory, so I'm wondering if it ...
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Are there some known identities of elliptic polylogarithms similar to the Abel identity of polylogarithm?

Let \begin{align} Li_2(z) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{z^n}{n^2}. \end{align} This polylogarithm satisfies the following Abel identity: \begin{align} & Li_2(-x) + \log x \log y \\ & + Li_2(-...
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Integrality of the mirror map -- non-GKZ examples? Counterexamples?

The mirror map in mirror symmetry is the change-of-variables between the natural coordinatizations on the two mirror sides and is typically a highly-complicated transcendental function (indeed, should ...