The Arithmetic Theory of Local Constants for abelian Varieties
This paper contains an overview of the known cases of the Bloch-Kato conjecture. It does not attempt to overview the known cases of the Beilinson conjecture and also excludes the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer point. The paper starts with a brief review of the formulation of the general conjecture. The final part gives a brief sketch of the proofs in the known cases.
Let G be a compact p-adic Lie group, with no element of order p, and having a closed normal subgroup H such that G/H is isomorphic to Zp. We prove the existence of a canonical Ore set S* of non-zero divisors in the Iwasawa algebra Λ(G) of G, which seems to be particularly relevant for arithmetic applications. Using localization with respect to S*, we are able to define a characteristic element for every finitely generated Λ(G)-module M which has the property that the quotient of M by its p-primary...
Let be a number field, and let be an abelian variety. Let denote the product of the Tamagawa numbers of , and let denote the finite torsion subgroup of . The quotient is a factor appearing in the leading term of the -function of in the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. We investigate in this article possible cancellations in this ratio. Precise results are obtained for elliptic curves over or quadratic extensions , and for abelian surfaces . The smallest possible ratio...
Nous montrons une version explicite du théorème de Beilinson pour la courbe modulaire . Ce résultat est la première étape d’un travail reliant, d’une part, la valeur en de la fonction d’une forme primitive de poids , et d’autre part, la fonction dilogarithme associée à la courbe modulaire correspondante, dans l’esprit de la conjecture de Zagier pour les courbes elliptiques. Comme corollaire de notre théorème, dans le cas où est premier, nous répondons à une question de Schappacher et Scholl...