SIGMA 5 (2009), 031, 12 pages      arXiv:0903.2425      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2009.031
Contribution to the Proceedings of the Workshop “Elliptic Integrable Systems, Isomonodromy Problems, and Hypergeometric Functions”

Differential and Functional Identities for the Elliptic Trilogarithm

Ian A.B. Strachan
Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

Received November 25, 2008, in final form March 06, 2009; Published online March 13, 2009

Abstract
When written in terms of J-functions, the classical Frobenius-Stickelberger pseudo-addition formula takes a very simple form. Generalizations of this functional identity are studied, where the functions involved are derivatives (including derivatives with respect to the modular parameter) of the elliptic trilogarithm function introduced by Beilinson and Levin. A differential identity satisfied by this function is also derived. These generalized Frobenius-Stickelberger identities play a fundamental role in the development of elliptic solutions of the Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde equations of associativity, with the simplest case reducing to the above mentioned differential identity.

Key words: Frobenius manifolds; WDVV equations; Jacobi groups; orbit spaces.

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