Explicit formulas for Grassmannian polylogarithms

Abstract

We give new explicit formulas for Grassmannian and Aomoto polylogarithms in terms of iterated integrals, for arbitrary weight. We also explicitly reduce the Grassmannian polylogarithm in weight 4 and in weight 5 each to depth 2. Furthermore, using this reduction in weight 4 we obtain an explicit, albeit complicated, form of the so-called 4-ratio, which gives an expression for the Borel class in continuous cohomology of $\mathrm{GL}_4$ in terms of $\mathrm{Li}_4$.