Three vignettes on hypergeometric normal functions

Abstract

We use Hodge-theoretic methods to (i) explain number-theoretic identities of a type recently considered by Guillera and Zudilin, (ii) describe the Frobenius dual of Abel-Jacobi period functions, and (iii) offer a new proof of Golyshev's conjecture on algebraic hypergeometrics aided by an argument in the spirit of Lefschetz's (1,1) theorem.