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6 papers

math.NT2026

On the -adic Littlewood conjecture in odd characteristics

Li Lai, Johannes Sprang

The -adic Littlewood conjecture is a function field analogue of the famous -adic Littlewood conjecture in Diophantine approximation. In this paper, we prove that the $P(t)…

math.NT2026

A note on the irrationality of

Li Lai, Johannes Sprang, Wadim Zudilin

In a spirit of Apéry's proof of the irrationality of , we construct a sequence of rational approximations to the -adic zeta value which satisfy $0 <…

math.NT2026

A partial result towards the Chowla--Milnor conjecture

Li Lai, Jia Li

The Chowla--Milnor conjecture predicts the linear independence of certain Hurwitz zeta values. In this paper, we prove that for any fixed integer , the dimension of…

math.NT2025

On the irrationality of certain -adic zeta values

Li Lai, Cezar Lupu, Johannes Sprang

A famous theorem of Zudilin states that at least one of the Riemann zeta values is irrational. In this paper, we establish the -adic analogue of Zu…

math.NT2025

Small improvements on the Ball-Rivoal theorem and its -adic variant

Li Lai

We prove that the dimension of the -linear span of is at least for any sufficiently large even integer…

math.NT2025

A note on the number of irrational odd zeta values, II

Li Lai

We prove that there are at least irrational numbers among , , , , for any sufficiently large even integer .…