Symmetries of weight 6 multiple polylogarithms and Goncharov's Depth Conjecture

Abstract

We prove that the weight 6, depth 3, multiple polylogarithm $ \mathrm{Li}_{4,1,1}((xyz)^{-1}, x, y) $, or rather its more natural `divergent' incarnation $ \mathrm{Li}_{3;1,1,1}(x,y,z) $, satisfies the 6-fold anharmonic symmetries of the dilogarithm $ \mathrm{Li}_2 $, $ \lambda \mapsto 1-\lambda $ and $ \lambda \mapsto \lambda^{-1} $, in each of $x$, $y$ and $z$ independently, modulo terms of depth $ \leq2 $. This establishes the `higher Zagier' part of the weight 6, depth 3, reduction conjectured by Matveiakin and Rudenko. Together with their proof of the `higher Gangl' part of the weight 6, depth 3, reduction (which is formulated modulo the `higher Zagier' part), we establish Goncharov's Depth Conjecture in the case of weight 6, depth 3.