Borne uniforme pour les homothéties dans l?image de Galois associée aux courbes elliptiques

Let K be a fixed number field and GK its absolute Galois group. We give a bound C(K), depending only on the degree, the class number and the discriminant of K, such that for any elliptic curve E defined over K and any prime number p strictly larger than C(K), the image of the representation of GK attached to the p-torsion points of E contains a subgroup of homotheties of index smaller than 12.     

Parity of ranks for elliptic curves with a cyclic isogeny

Let E be an elliptic curve over a number field K which admits a cyclic p-isogeny with p?3 and semistable at primes above p. We determine the root number and the parity of the p-Selmer rank for E/K, in particular confirming the parity conjecture for such curves. We prove the analogous results for p=2 under the additional assumption that E is not supersingular at primes above 2.     

The p-adic Gross-Zagier formula for elliptic curves at supersingular primes

Let p be a prime number and let E be an elliptic curve defined over ? of conductor N. Let K be an imaginary quadratic field with discriminant prime to pN such that all prime factors of N split in K. B. Perrin-Riou established the p-adic Gross-Zagier formula that relates the first derivative of the p-adic L-function of E over K to the p-adic height of the Heegner point for K when E has good ordinary reduction at p. In this article, we prove the p-adic Gross-Zagier formula of E for the cyclotomic ? _p -extension at good supersingular prime p. Our result has an application for the full Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Suppose that the analytic rank of E over ? is 1 and assume that the Iwasawa main conjecture is true for all good primes and the p-adic height pairing is not identically equal to zero for all good ordinary primes, then our result implies the full Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture up to bad primes. In particular, if E has complex multiplication and of analytic rank 1, the full Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is true up to a power of bad primes and 2.     

On the vanishing of Selmer groups for elliptic curves over ring class fields

Let E/Q be an elliptic curve of conductor N without complex multiplication and let K be an imaginary quadratic field of discriminant D prime to N. Assume that the number of primes dividing N and inert in K is odd, and let Hc be the ring class field of K of conductor c prime to ND with Galois group Gc over K. Fix a complex character χ of Gc. Our main result is that if LK(E,χ,1)≠0 then Selp(E/Hc)χ_⊗W=0 for all but finitely many primes p, where Selp(E/Hc) is the p-Selmer group of E over Hc and W is a suitable finite extension of Zp containing the values of χ. Our work extends results of Bertolini and Darmon to almost all non-ordinary primes p and also offers alternative proofs of a χ-twisted version of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for E over Hc (Bertolini and Darmon) and of the vanishing of Selp(E/K) for almost all p (Kolyvagin) in the case of analytic rank zero.     

Global construction of associated orders in complex multiplication

Let E/L be an elliptic curve defined over a number field L with complex multiplication by the ring of integers of a quadratic imaginary number field K⊆L. We fix a prime ideal p in K and assume E to have good reduction modulo p. We consider cosets of the form P+G_m, where G_m denotes the group of points of order p^m and P a point of order p^r+m, , which can be viewed as the set of all “p^m-th roots” of some point in G_r.In analogy to the Kummer theory such a coset gives rise to the definition of an order in an algebra M_P and to an associated order A defined below by its local components. These objects naturally come into play in the Galois module structure of rings of integers in ray class fields over K. It is the aim of this article to construct global generators both for and A as algebras over the ring of integers of L. For the convenience of the reader we also include from (J. Number Theory 77 (1999) 97) a simple construction of Galois generators for over A. We thereby show that these generators also fit in the setting of this article that is more general than in [Sch4]. The main results in Theorems 3, 6 and 7 are obtained assuming the base field L to contain “enough” torsion points of E.     

Elementary Abelianp-extensions of algebraic function fields

LetK be a field of characteristicp>0 andF/K be an algebraic function field. We obtain several results on Galois extensionsE/F with an elementary Abelian Galois group of orderp ⁿ.

1. E can be generated overF by some elementy whose minimal polynomial has the specific formT ^pn?T?z.
2. A formula for the genus ofE is given.
3. IfK is finite, then the genus ofE grows much faster than the number of rational points (as [E∶F] → ∞).
4. We present a new example of a function fieldE/K whose gap numbers are nonclassical.

     

The relations among the three kinds of conditional risk measures

Let(Ω,E,P)be a probability space,F a sub-σ-algebra of E,Lp(E)(1 p+∞)the classical function space and Lp F(E)the L0(F)-module generated by Lp(E),which can be made into a random normed module in a natural way.Up to the present time,there are three kinds of conditional risk measures,whose model spaces are L∞(E),Lp(E)(1 p+∞)and Lp F(E)(1 p+∞)respectively,and a conditional convex dual representation theorem has been established for each kind.The purpose of this paper is to study the relations among the three kinds of conditional risk measures together with their representation theorems.We first establish the relation between Lp(E)and Lp F(E),namely Lp F(E)=Hcc(Lp(E)),which shows that Lp F(E)is exactly the countable concatenation hull of Lp(E).Based on the precise relation,we then prove that every L0(F)-convex Lp(E)-conditional risk measure(1 p+∞)can be uniquely extended to an L0(F)-convex Lp F(E)-conditional risk measure and that the dual representation theorem of the former can also be regarded as a special case of that of the latter,which shows that the study of Lp-conditional risk measures can be incorporated into that of Lp F(E)-conditional risk measures.In particular,in the process we find that combining the countable concatenation hull of a set and the local property of conditional risk measures is a very useful analytic skill that may considerably simplify and improve the study of L0-convex conditional risk measures.∞     

Vanishing of some cohomology groups and bounds for the Shafarevich-Tate groups of elliptic curves

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q and ? be an odd prime. Also, let K be a number field and assume that E has a semi-stable reduction at ?. Under certain assumptions, we prove the vanishing of the Galois cohomology group H¹(Gal(K(E[?ⁱ])/K),E[?ⁱ]) for all i?1. When K is an imaginary quadratic field with the usual Heegner assumption, this vanishing theorem enables us to extend a result of Kolyvagin, which finds a bound for the order of the ?-primary part of Shafarevich-Tate groups of E over K. This bound is consistent with the prediction of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.     

The Galois representations associated to a Drinfeld module in special characteristic—III: Image of the group ring

Let K be a finitely generated field of transcendence degree 1 over a finite field, and set G_K?Gal(K^sep/K). Let φ be a Drinfeld A-module over K in special characteristic. Set E?End_K(φ) and let Z be its center. We show that for almost all primes p of A, the image of the group ring A_p[G_K] in End_A(T_p(φ)) is the commutant of E. Thus, for almost all p it is a full matrix ring over Z⊗_AA_p. In the special case E=A it follows that the representation of G_K on the p-torsion points φ[p] is absolutely irreducible for almost all p.     

On the space of all regular operators from C(K) into C(K)

It is known that L^r(E, C(K)), the space of all regular operators from E into C(K), is a Riesz space for all Riesz spaces E if and only if K is Stonian. We prove that this statement holds if E is replaced by C(K), where K is a compact space, the cardinal number of which satisfies a certain condition.     

On the variation of Tate-Shafarevich groups of elliptic curves over hyperelliptic curves

Let E be an elliptic curve over F=F_q(t) having conductor (p)·∞, where (p) is a prime ideal in F_q[t]. Let d∈F_q[t] be an irreducible polynomial of odd degree, and let . Assume (p) remains prime in K. We prove the analogue of the formula of Gross for the special value L(E⊗_FK,1). As a consequence, we obtain a formula for the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group Ш(E/K) when L(E⊗_FK,1)≠0.     

Extension of isometries on the unit sphere of L p spaces

In this paper we study the isometric extension problem and show that every surjective isometry between the unit spheres of Lp (μ) (1 p ∞, p≠2) and a Banach space E can be extended to a linear isometry from Lp(μ) onto E, which means that if the unit sphere of E is (metrically) isometric to the unit sphere of Lp(μ), then E is linearly isometric to Lp(μ). We also prove that every surjective 1-Lipschitz or anti-1-Lipschitz map between the unit spheres of Lp (μ1, H1) and Lp(μ2,H2) must be an isometry and can be extended to a linear isometry from Lp (μ1,H1) to Lp (μ2,H2), where H1 and H2 are Hilbert spaces.     

Harmonic analysis of SL(2) over a locally compact field

We carry over the pioneer work of Kunze and Stein concerning representation theory and harmonic analysis on SL(2, R) to the group G = SL(2, K), K a locally compact totally disconnected nondiscrete field. The main result is that convolution by an L^p(G) function, 1 ? p < 2, is a bounded operator on L²(G). To accomplish this result we develop the appropriate estimates (which depend upon the work of Sally et al.) that enable us to apply the Kunze and Stein interpolation theory to the Fourier-Laplace transform for the group G. Best possible estimates are obtained.     

On Artin's conjecture

Let $\text{F}$ be a family of number fields which are normal and of finite degree over a given number field K. Consider the lattice L(scF) spanned by all the elements of $\text{F}$. The generalized Artin problem is to determine the set of prime ideals of K which do not split completely in any element H of L(scF), H≠K. Assuming the generalized Riemann hypothesis and some mild restrictions on $\text{F}$, we solve this problem by giving an asymptotic formula for the number of such prime ideals below a given norm. The classical Artin conjecture on primitive roots appears as a special case. In another case, if $\text{F}$ is the family of fields obtained by adjoining to $\text{Q}$ the q-division points of an elliptic curve E over $\text{Q}$, the Artin problem determines how often E($\text{F}$_p) is cyclic. If E has complex multiplication, the generalized Riemann hypothesis can be removed by using the analogue of the Bombieri-Vinogradov prime number theorem for number fields.     

Bounded point evaluations and capacity

Let E be a compact set in the complex plane with positive Lebesgue measure, and denote by R^p(E), p ? 1, the closure in the L^p(E) norm of the rational functions with poles off E. A point z?E is said to be a bounded point evaluation for R^p(E) if the map z   ?(z), defined for the rational functions, can be extended to a bounded linear functional on R^p(E). For p < 2 there are no other bounded point evaluations for R^p(E) than the interior points of E, but for p ? 2 there may be bounded point evaluations on the boundary, ∂E. We give a condition, in terms of capacity, which is necessary and sufficient for a point on ∂E to be a bounded point evaluation for R^p(E), 2 < p < ∞, and close to necessary and sufficient when p = 2. We also treat bounded point derivations, and the corresponding problems for L_p-spaces of analytic functions on open sets.     

Image of the group ring of the Galois representation associated to Drinfeld modules

Let φ be a Drinfeld A-module of arbitrary rank and arbitrary characteristic over a finitely generated field K, and set GK=Gal(Ksep/K). Let E=EndK(φ). We show that for almost all primes p of A the image of the group ring A[GK] in EndA(Tp(φ)) is the commutant of E. In the special case E=A it follows that the representation of GK on the p-torsion points φ[p](Ksep) of φ is absolutely irreducible for almost all p.     

Leavitt path algebras with coefficients in a commutative ring

Given a directed graph E we describe a method for constructing a Leavitt path algebra L_R(E) whose coefficients are in a commutative unital ring R. We prove versions of the Graded Uniqueness Theorem and Cuntz-Krieger Uniqueness Theorem for these Leavitt path algebras, giving proofs that both generalize and simplify the classical results for Leavitt path algebras over fields. We also analyze the ideal structure of L_R(E), and we prove that if K is a field, then L_K(E)≅K⊗_ZL_Z(E).     

Commutator Leavitt Path Algebras

For any field K and directed graph E, we completely describe the elements of the Leavitt path algebra L _K (E) which lie in the commutator subspace [L _K (E), L _K (E)]. We then use this result to classify all Leavitt path algebras L _K (E) that satisfy L _K (E)?=?[L _K (E),L _K (E)]. We also show that these Leavitt path algebras have the additional (unusual) property that all their Lie ideals are (ring-theoretic) ideals, and construct examples of such rings with various ideal structures.     

Tame Kernels of Quaternion Number Fields

Let E/F be a Galois extension of number fields with the quaternion Galois group Q ₈. In this paper, we prove some relations connecting orders of the odd part of the kernel of the transfer map of the tame kernel of E with the same orders of some of its subfields. Let E/? be a Galois extension of number fields with the Galois group Q ₈ and p an odd prime such that p ≡ 3 (mod 4). We prove that if there is at most one quadratic subfield such that the p-Sylow subgroup of the tame kernel is nontrivial, then p ^r -rank(K ₂(E/K)) is even, i.e., 2|p ^r -rank(K ₂(𝒪 _E )) ? p ^r -rank(K ₂(𝒪 _K )), where K is the quartic subfield of E.     

Conditional expectations and weak and strong compactness in spaces of Bochner integrable functions

In [6, theorem IV.8.18], relatively norm compact sets K in L^p(μ) are characterized by means of strong convergence of conditional expectations, E_πf → f in L^p(μ), uniformly for f ∈ K, where (E_π) is the family of conditional expectations corresponding to the net of all finite measurable partitions.In this paper we extend the above result in several ways: we consider nets of not necessarily finite partitions; we consider spaces $\text{L}{}_{\mathrm{E}}{}^{\mathrm{p}}\text{(μ)}$ of vector valued pth power Bochner integrable functions (and spaces M(Σ, E) of vector valued measures with finite variation); we characterize relatively strong compact sets K in $\text{L}{}_{\mathrm{E}}{}^{\mathrm{p}}\text{(μ)}$ by means of uniform strong convergence E_πf → f, as well as relatively weak compact sets K by means of uniform weak convergence E_πf → f. Previously, in [4], uniform strong convergence (together with some other conditions) was proved to be sufficient (but not necessary) for relative weak compactness.