A note on Shintani's invariants

Abstract: Shintani's famous invariants conjecturally generate abelian extensions of real quadratic number fields and thus give a conjectural solution to Hilbert's 12th problem. In the present note, we find new expressions for Shintani's invariants by generalising an observation due to Yamamoto who showed that Shintani's invariants, originally expressed in terms of the double sine function, can be written in terms of the q-Pochhammer (or q-Exponential) function.