posted on 2025-05-10, 12:46authored byMarie José Bertin, Wadim Zudilin
We prove Boyd’s “unexpected coincidence” of the Mahler measures for two families of two-variate polynomials defining curves of genus 2. We further equate the same measures to the Mahler measures of polynomials y³ − y + x³ − x + kxy whose zero loci define elliptic curves for k ≠ 0, ± 3.