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Dilogarithm


In mathematics, Spence's function, or dilogarithm, denoted as Li2(z), is a particular case of the polylogarithm. Two related special functions are referred to as Spence's function, the dilogarithm itself:

and its reflection. For an infinite series also applies (the integral definition constitutes its analytical extension to the complex plane):

Alternatively, the dilogarithm function is sometimes defined as

In hyperbolic geometry the dilogarithm occurs as the hyperbolic volume of an ideal simplex whose ideal vertices have cross ratio . Lobachevsky's function and Clausen's function are closely related functions.


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