Some functions related to the complex dilogarithmic function
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(in the notation of Lewin [9]) are known to occur in connection with algebraic K-theory and characteristic classes (see e.g. Bloch [1], Gelfand-MacPherson [7], Dupont [5], and the references given there). Recently MacPherson and Hain (see [10]) has announced results of a similar kind for some higher polylogarithmic functions. Also Ramakrishnan [11] and [12] has recently studied the classical polylogarithms, which for |z| < 1 are given by
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