This paper provides evidence for the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for analytic rank 0 abelian varieties Af that are optimal quotients of J0(N) attached to newforms. We prove theorems about the ratio L(Af , 1)/ΩAf , develop tools for computing with Af , and gather data about certain arithmetic invariants of the nearly 20, 000 abelian varieties Af of level ≤ 2333. Over half of these Af ha...

In this paper we present a method for explicitly computing rational points on elliptic curves using Heegner points. This method was crucial to the proof of Gross-Zagier, which proves the rank one case of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. Although this use of Heegner points can be found in many books and articles, we strive here to present it in a more concrete and complete form, and usi...

Mazur, Tate, and Teitelbaum gave a p-adic analogue of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for elliptic curves. We provide a generalization of their conjecture in the good ordinary case to higher dimensional modular abelian varieties over the rationals by constructing the padic L-function of a modular abelian variety and showing it satisfies the appropriate interpolation property. We descri...

Let E/Q be an elliptic curve defined by the equation y 2 = x 3 + ax + b. For a prime p, p ∤ ∆ = −16(4a 3 + 27b 2) = 0, define N p = p + 1 − a p = |E(F p)|. As a precursor to their celebrated conjecture, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer originally conjectured that for some constant c, p≤x,p∤∆ N p p ∼ c(log x) r , x → ∞. Let α p and β p be the eigenvalues of the Frobenius at p. Define ˜ c n =    α k ...