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Acta Mathematica Vietnamica

On a conjecture by Pierre Cartier about a group of associators

icon-email V. Hoang Ngoc Minh

Abstract

In Cartier (Fonctions polylogarithmes, nombres polyzêtas et groupes pro-unipotents. Sém. BOURBAKI, 53ème 2000–2001, no. 885), Pierre Cartier conjectured that for any non-commutative formal power series $\Phi$ on $X=\{x_0,x_1\}$ with coefficients in a $\mathbb Q$-extension, $A$, subjected to some suitable conditions, there exists a unique algebra homomorphism $\varphi$ from the $\mathbb Q$-algebra generated by the convergent polyzetas to $A$ such that $\Phi$ is computed from the $\Phi_{KZ}$ Drinfel’d associator by applying $\varphi$ to each coefficient. We prove that $\varphi$ exists and that it is a free Lie exponential map over $X$. Moreover, we give a complete description of the kernel of $\zeta$ and draw some consequences about the arithmetical nature of the Euler constant and about an algebraic structure of the polyzetas.