Chapter 14 On -adic iterated integrals V: linear independence, properties of -adic polylogarithms, -adic sheaves Zdzis?aw Wojtkowiak Abstract In a series of papers we have introduced and studied -adic polylogarithms and -adic iterated integrals which are analogues of the classical complex polyloga- rithms and iterated integrals in -adic Galois realizations. In this note we shall show that in the generic case -adic iterated integrals are linearly independent over Q. In particular they are non trivial. This result can be viewed as analogous of the statement that the classical iterated integrals from 0 to z of se- quences of one forms dzz and dz z?1 are linearly independent over Q. We also study ramification properties of -adic polylogarithms and the minimal quo- tient subgroup of the absolute Galois group GK of a number field K on which -adic polylogarithms are defined. In the final sections of the paper we study -adic sheaves and their relations with -adic polylogarithms. We show that if an -adic sheaf has the same monodromy representation as the classical complex polylogarithms then the action of GK in stalks is given by -adic polylogarithms. Key words: Galois group, polylogarithms, fundamental group 14.1 Introduction In this paper we study properties of -adic iterated integrals and -adic polyloga- rithms introduced in [Wo04] and [Wo05a]. We describe briefly the main results of the paper, though in the introduction we do not present them in full generality.
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