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On the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for modular elliptic curves over totally real fields

Matteo Longo (2006)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

Let E / F be a modular elliptic curve defined over a totally real number field F and let φ be its associated eigenform. This paper presents a new method, inspired by a recent work of Bertolini and Darmon, to control the rank of E over suitable quadratic imaginary extensions K / F . In particular, this argument can also be applied to the cases not covered by the work of Kolyvagin and Logachëv, that is, when [ F : ] is even and φ not new at any prime.

On the Brocard-Ramanujan problem and generalizations

Andrzej Dąbrowski (2012)

Colloquium Mathematicae

Let p i denote the ith prime. We conjecture that there are precisely 28 solutions to the equation n ² - 1 = p α p k α k in positive integers n and α₁,..., α k . This conjecture implies an explicit description of the set of solutions to the Brocard-Ramanujan equation. We also propose another variant of the Brocard-Ramanujan problem: describe the set of solutions in non-negative integers of the equation n! + A = x₁²+x₂²+x₃² (A fixed).

On the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem

James Maynard (2013)

Acta Arithmetica

The Brun-Titchmarsh theorem shows that the number of primes which are less than x and congruent to a modulo q is less than (C+o(1))x/(ϕ(q)logx) for some value C depending on logx/logq. Different authors have provided different estimates for C in different ranges for logx/logq, all of which give C>2 when logx/logq is bounded. We show that one can take C=2 provided that logx/logq ≥ 8 and q is sufficiently large. Moreover, we also produce a lower bound of size x / ( q 1 / 2 ϕ ( q ) ) when logx/logq ≥ 8 and is bounded....

On the Carlitz problem on the number of solutions to some special equations over finite fields

Ioulia N. Baoulina (2011)

Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux

We consider an equation of the type a 1 x 1 2 + + a n x n 2 = b x 1 x n over the finite field 𝔽 q = 𝔽 p s . Carlitz obtained formulas for the number of solutions to this equation when n = 3 and when n = 4 and q 3 ( mod 4 ) . In our earlier papers, we found formulas for the number of solutions when d = gcd ( n - 2 , ( q - 1 ) / 2 ) = 1 or 2 or 4 ; and when d > 1 and - 1 is a power of p modulo  2 d . In this paper, we obtain formulas for the number of solutions when d = 2 t , t 3 , p 3 or 5 ( mod 8 ) or p 9 ( mod 16 ) . For general case, we derive lower bounds for the number of solutions.

On the characteristic power series of the U operator

Fernando Q. Gouvêa, Barry Mazur (1993)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

We show that the coefficients of the characteristic power series of Atkin’s U operator acting on overconvergent p -adic modular forms of weight k vary p -adically continuously as functions of k . Are they in fact Iwasawa functions of k ?

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