Iwasawa Theory for Elliptic Curves at Unstable Primes

In this paper we examine the Iwasawa theory of modular elliptic curves E defined over Q without semi-stable reduction at p. By constructing p-adic L-functions at primes of additive reduction, we formulate a "Main Conjecture" linking this L-function with a certain Selmer group for E over the Zp-extension. Thus the leading term is expressible in terms of III_E, E(Q)_tors and a p-adic regulator term.     

Moments of L-Functions Attached to the Twist of Modular Form by Dirichlet Characters

Let f(z) be a holomorphic cusp form of weight κ with respect to the full modular group SL2(Z). Let L(s, f) be the automorphic L-function associated with f(z) and χ be a Dirichlet character modulo q. In this paper, the authors prove that unconditionally for k =1/n with n ∈ N,and the result also holds for any real number 0 k 1 under the GRH for L(s, f ■χ).The authors also prove that under the GRH for L(s, f ■χ),for any real number k 0 and any large prime q.     

Iwasawa theory of quadratic twists of <Emphasis Type="Italic">X</Emphasis><Subscript>0</Subscript>(49)

The field \(K = \mathbb{Q}\left( {\sqrt { - 7} } \right)\) is the only imaginary quadratic field with class number 1, in which the prime 2 splits, and we fix one of the primes p of K lying above 2. The modular elliptic curve X ₀(49) has complex multiplication by the maximal order O of K, and we let E be the twist of X ₀(49) by the quadratic extension \(KK(\sqrt M )/K\), where M is any square free element of O with M ≡ 1 mod 4 and (M,7) = 1. In the present note, we use surprisingly simple algebraic arguments to prove a sharp estimate for the rank of the Mordell-Weil group modulo torsion of E over the field F _∞ = K(E _p∞), where E _p∞ denotes the group of p^∞-division points on E. Moreover, writing B for the twist of X ₀(49) by \(K(\sqrt[4]{{ - 7}})/K\), our Iwasawa-theoretic arguments also show that the weak form of the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer implies the non-vanishing at s = 1 of the complex L-series of B over every finite layer of the unique Z₂-extension of K unramified outside p. We hope to give a proof of this last non-vanishing assertion in a subsequent paper.     

Root Numbers of Non-Abelian Twists of Elliptic Curves

We study the global root number of the complex L-function oftwists of elliptic curves over Q by real Artin representations.We obtain examples of elliptic curves over Q which, while nothaving any rational points of infinite order, conjecturallymust have points of infinite order over the fields for every cube-free m > 1. We describe analogousphenomena for elliptic curves over the fields , and in the towers and , where r 3 is prime.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 11G40, 11G05.     

An algebraic version of a theorem of Kurihara

Let E/Q be an elliptic curve and let p be an odd supersingular prime for E. In this article, we study the simplest case of Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves, namely when E(Q) is finite, ш(E/Q) has no p-torsion and the Tamagawa factors for E are all prime to p. Under these hypotheses, we prove that E(Q_n) is finite and make precise statements about the size and structure of the p-power part of ш(E/Q_n). Here Q_n is the n-th step in the cyclotomic Z_p-extension of Q.     

Descent Calculations for the Elliptic Curves of Conductor 11

Let A be any one of the three elliptic curves over Q with conductor11. We show that A has Mordell–Weil rank zero over itsfield of 5-division points. In each case we also compute the5-primary part of the Tate–Shafarevich group. Our calculationsmake use of the Galois equivariance of the Cassels–Tatepairing. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 11G05, 11Y40,11R23.     

Twists of elliptic curves

If E is an elliptic curve over , then let E(D) denote theD-quadratic twist of E. It is conjectured that there are infinitely many primesp for which E(p) has rank 0, and that there are infinitely many primes for which has positive rank. For some special curvesE we show that there is a set S of primes p with density for which if is a squarefree integer where , then E(D) has rank 0. In particular E(p) has rank 0 for every . As an example let E1 denote the curve .Then its associated set of primes S₁ consists of the prime11 and the primes p for which the order of the reduction ofX₀(11) modulo p is odd. To obtain the general result we show for primes that the rational factor of L(E(p),1) is nonzero which implies thatE(p) has rank 0. These special values are related to surjective Galois representations that are attached to modularforms. Another example of this result is given, and we conclude with someremarks regarding the existence of positive rank prime twists via polynomialidentities.     

Kamienny's criterion and the method of Coleman and Chabauty

This paper gives a new proof of Kamienny's Criterion using the method of Coleman and Chabauty.

     

Heights of CM Points on Complex Affine Curves

In this note we show that, assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis for quadratic imaginary fields, an irreducible algebraic curve in is modular if and only if it contains a CM point of sufficiently large height. This is an effective version of a theorem of Edixhoven.     

广义Dedekind和与L-函数的一类恒等式

本文的主要目的是引入广义 Ｄｅｄｅｋｉｎｄ和,并由此推出 Ｄｉｒｉｃｈｌｅｔ Ｌ－函数的 一类恒等式．     

Rational eigenvectors in spaces of ternary forms

We describe the explicit computation of linear combinations of ternary quadratic forms which are eigenvectors, with rational eigenvalues, under all Hecke operators. We use this process to construct, for each elliptic curve of rank zero and conductor for which or is squarefree, a weight 3/2 cusp form which is (potentially) a preimage of the weight two newform under the Shimura correspondence.

     

Special Points on the Product of Two Modular Curves

We prove, assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis for imaginary quadratic fields, the following special case of a conjecture of Oort, concerning Zarsiski closures of sets of CM points in Shimura varieties. Let X be an irreducible algebraic curve in C², containing infinitely many points of which both coordinates are j-invariants of CM elliptic curves. Suppose that both projections from X to C are not constant. Then there is an integer m 1such that X is the image, under the usual map, of the modular curve Y₂0(m). The proof uses some number theory and some topological arguments.     

Dirichlet L-函数倒数的2k次加权均值

本文主要目的是利用经典的Ｋｌｏｏｓｔｅｒｍａｎｎ和估计及其解析方法研究Ｄｉｒｉｃｈ－ｌｅｔ Ｌ-函数倒数的 ２ｋ次加权均值,得到了一个较为精确的渐近公式．     

Elliptic curves and positive definite ternary forms

For two given ternary quadratic formsf(x, y, z) andg( x, y, z), letr(f, n) andr(g, n) be the numbers of representations of n represented byf( x, y, z) and g( x, y, z) respectively. In this paper we study the following problem: when will we haver(f, n) =r(g, n) orr( f, n)≠r(g, n). Our method is to use elliptic curves and the corresponding new forms.     

On the Distribution of Coefficients of Logarithmic Derivativesof L-Functions Attached to Certain Arithmetical Semigroups

 Under the Riemann Hypothesis for the classical Riemann zeta function, there exist infinitely many arithmetically non-isomorphic arithmetical semigroups with the property that one of the associated L-functions vanishes at . Moreover, there are no restrictions in the distribution of prime divisors of a given norm except an obvious one concerning the order of magnitude. Received 22 December 1997 in revised form 12 May 1998     

Organizing the arithmetic of elliptic curves

Suppose that E is an elliptic curve defined over a number field K, p is a rational prime, and K_∞ is the maximal Z_p-power extension of K. In previous work [B. Mazur, K. Rubin, Elliptic curves and class field theory, in: Ta Tsien Li (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2002, vol. II, Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2002, pp. 185-195; B. Mazur, K. Rubin, Pairings in the arithmetic of elliptic curves, in: J. Cremona et al. (Eds.), Modular Curves and Abelian Varieties, Progress in Mathematics, vol. 224, 2004, pp. 151-163] we discussed the possibility that much of the arithmetic of E over K_∞ (i.e., the Mordell-Weil groups and their p-adic height pairings, the Shafarevich-Tate groups and their Cassels pairings, over all finite extensions of K in K_∞) can be described efficiently in terms of a single skew-Hermitian matrix with entries drawn from the Iwasawa algebra of K_∞/K.In this paper, using work of Nekovár? [J. Nekovár?, Selmer complexes. Preprint available at 〈http://www.math.jussieu.fr/∼nekovar/pu/〉], we show that under not-too-stringent conditions such an “organizing” matrix does in fact exist. We also work out an assortment of numerical instances in which we can describe the organizing matrix explicitly.     

Symmetric Designs Attached to Four-Weight Spin Models

H. Guo and T. Huang studied the four-weight spin models (X, W ₁, W ₂, W ₃, W ₄;D) with the property that the entries of the matrix W ₂ (or equivalently W ₄) consist of exactly two distinct values. They found that such spin models are always related to symmetric designs whose derived design with respect to any block is a quasi symmetric design. In this paper we show that such a symmetric design admits a four-weight spin model with exactly two values on W ₂ if and only if it has some kind of duality between the set of points and the set of blocks. We also give some examples of parameters of symmetric designs which possibly admit four-weight spin models with exactly two values on W ₂.     

On the Distribution of Coefficients of Logarithmic Derivativesof L-Functions Attached to Certain Arithmetical Semigroups

 Under the Riemann Hypothesis for the classical Riemann zeta function, there exist infinitely many arithmetically non-isomorphic arithmetical semigroups with the property that one of the associated L-functions vanishes at . Moreover, there are no restrictions in the distribution of prime divisors of a given norm except an obvious one concerning the order of magnitude.