Periods of Hodge cycles and special values of the Gauss' hypergeometric function
arXiv:2010.00707 · doi:10.1016/j.jnt.2021.08.010
Abstract
We compute periods of perturbations of a Fermat variety. This allows us to consider a subspace of the Hodge cycles defined by "simple" arithmetic conditions. We explore some examples and give an upper bound for the dimension of this subspace. As an application, we find explicit expressions involving some Gauss' hypergeometric functions which are algebraic over the field of rational functions in one variable.
26 pages. Notations have been improved. Final version to appear in Journal of Number Theory