Transcendental nature of p-adic digamma values.

For a fixed prime p, Murty and Saradha (Acta Arith 133:349–362, 2008) studied the transcendental nature of special values of the p-adic digamma function, denoted as ψ p (r / p) + γ p . This research was later extended by Chatterjee and Gun in 2014, who investigated the case of ψ p (r / p n) + γ p , for any integer n > 1 . In this article, we generalize their results for distinct prime powers and explore the transcendental nature of the p-adic digamma values, with at most one exception. Further, we investigate the multiplicative independence of cyclotomic numbers satisfying certain conditions. Using this, we prove the transcendental nature of p-adic digamma values corresponding to ψ p (r / p q) + γ p , where p, q are distinct primes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]