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A period, or more precisely, a period number may be thought of as the value of an integral that occurs in a geometric context. In their papers [Kon99, KZ01], Kontsevich and Zagier list various ways of defining a period. We show that all these variants give the same notion.
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Huber, A., Müller-Stach, S. (2017). Periods of Varieties. In: Periods and Nori Motives. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics, vol 65. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50926-6_11
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