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STARK POINTS AND $p$-ADIC ITERATED INTEGRALS ATTACHED TO MODULAR FORMS OF WEIGHT ONE

Part of: Arithmetic algebraic geometry Discontinuous groups and automorphic forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2015

HENRI DARMON ,
ALAN LAUDER  and
VICTOR ROTGER
HENRI DARMON
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montreal, Canada; darmon@math.mcgill.ca
ALAN LAUDER
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK; lauder@maths.ox.ac.uk
VICTOR ROTGER
Affiliation:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; victor.rotger@upc.edu

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Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$, and let ${\it\varrho}_{\flat }$ and ${\it\varrho}_{\sharp }$ be odd two-dimensional Artin representations for which ${\it\varrho}_{\flat }\otimes {\it\varrho}_{\sharp }$ is self-dual. The progress on modularity achieved in recent decades ensures the existence of normalized eigenforms $f$, $g$, and $h$ of respective weights two, one, and one, giving rise to $E$, ${\it\varrho}_{\flat }$, and ${\it\varrho}_{\sharp }$ via the constructions of Eichler and Shimura, and of Deligne and Serre. This article examines certain $p$-adic iterated integrals attached to the triple $(f,g,h)$, which are $p$-adic avatars of the leading term of the Hasse–Weil–Artin $L$-series $L(E,{\it\varrho}_{\flat }\otimes {\it\varrho}_{\sharp },s)$ when it has a double zero at the centre. A formula is proposed for these iterated integrals, involving the formal group logarithms of global points on $E$—referred to as Starkpoints—which are defined over the number field cut out by ${\it\varrho}_{\flat }\otimes {\it\varrho}_{\sharp }$. This formula can be viewed as an elliptic curve analogue of Stark’s conjecture on units attached to weight-one forms. It is proved when $g$ and $h$ are binary theta series attached to a common imaginary quadratic field in which $p$ splits, by relating the arithmetic quantities that arise in it to elliptic units and Heegner points. Fast algorithms for computing $p$-adic iterated integrals based on Katz expansions of overconvergent modular forms are then exploited to gather numerical evidence in more exotic scenarios, encompassing Mordell–Weil groups over cyclotomic fields, ring class fields of real quadratic fields (a setting which may shed light on the theory of Stark–Heegner points attached to Shintani-type cycles on ${\mathcal{H}}_{p}\times {\mathcal{H}}$), and extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$ with Galois group a central extension of the dihedral group $D_{2n}$ or of one of the exceptional subgroups $A_{4}$, $S_{4}$, and $A_{5}$ of $\mathbf{PGL}_{2}(\mathbb{C})$.

MSC classification

Primary: 11G05: Elliptic curves over global fields
Secondary: 11F11: Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight 11G40: $L$-functions of varieties over global fields; Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

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Forum of Mathematics, Pi , Volume 3 , 2015 , e8
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