ELLIPTIC UNITS AND TWO VARIABLE p-ADIC L-FUNCTIONS

The p-Adic L-Functions of Modular Elliptic Curves

The arithmetic theory of elliptic curves enters the new century with some of its major secrets intact. Most notably, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, which relates the arithmetic of an elliptic curve to the analytic behaviour of its associated L-series, is still unproved in spite of important advances in the last decades, some of which are recalled in Chapter 1. In the 1960’s the pione...

JACOBI FORMS AND A TWO-VARIABLE p-ADIC L-FUNCTION

Introduction. Consider a Jacobi form φ(τ, z) = ∑ n,r c(n, r)q ζ whose Fourier coefficients c(n, r) are algebraic numbers. Let p be an odd prime. In this paper we associate to φ a Λ-adic p-ordinary form in the sense of [4]. The construction comes from the map Dν introduced in [2], Theorem 3.1. This map associates to a Jacobi form a family of modular forms parametrised by ν. We obtain the two-var...

Two p-adic L-functions and rational points on elliptic curves with supersingular reduction

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q. We assume that E has good supersingular reduction at a prime p, and for simplicity, assume p is odd and ap = p+ 1− #E(Fp) is zero. Then, as the second author showed, the p-adic L-function Lp,α(E) of E corresponding to α = ±√−p (by Amice-Vélu and Vishik) can be written as Lp,α(E) = f log+p +g logp α by using two Iwasawa functions f and g ∈ Zp[[Gal(Q∞/Q)]] ([20]...

p-ADIC PERIODS, p-ADIC L-FUNCTIONS, AND THE p-ADIC UNIFORMIZATION OF SHIMURA CURVES

SUPERSINGULAR PRIMES AND p-ADIC L-FUNCTIONS

We discuss the problem of finding a p-adic L-function attached to an elliptic curve with complex multiplication over an imaginary quadratic field K, for the case of a prime where the curve has supersingular reduction. While the case of primes of ordinary reduction has been extensively studied and is essentially understood, yielding many deep and interesting results, basic questions remain unans...