posted on 2025-05-11, 13:23authored 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 y<sup>3</sup>−y+x<sup>3</sup>−x+kxy whose zero loci define elliptic curves for k≠0,±3.
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