Analysis of a Motivic Structure
Consider the decorated seed: $$\mathcal S_{\mathrm dec} = (\mathcal I, \Gamma, \Pi, \chi,\rho,\mathcal L)$$ which is a candidate motivic object, with $L$-functions arising through trace constructions on $\mathcal S$. To see what that means, consider: $$ \mathcal S = (\mathcal I, \Gamma, \Pi) $$ which is a $\Pi$-equivariant $4$-sheeted branched cover $$ p: \mathcal I \longrightarrow \mathbf{ \widehat{C}} $$ equipped with a distinguished embedded graph $$ \Gamma \subset \mathcal I $$ on the covering surface. $\Gamma$ is combinatorially an octahedral graph. $\Gamma$ contains three distinguished $4$-cycles $\Gamma_x,\Gamma_y, \Gamma_z$ whose union is all of $\Gamma$. The decoration $\chi = \lbrace x,y,z\rbrace$ gives an edge-coloring by $\lbrace x,y,z \rbrace$. This is notably different from Grothendieck's dessins d'enfants, which are downstairs on $\widehat{\mathbf C}$. Write the holonomy representation $$ \rho : \pi_1(\Gamma) \longrightarrow U(1) $$ The piecewise m...