Hida families, -adic heights, and derivatives
This paper concerns the arithmetic of certain -adic families of elliptic modular forms. We relate, using a formula of Rubin, some Iwasawa-theoretic aspects of the three items in the title of this paper. In particular, we examine several conjectures, three of which assert the non-triviality of an Euler system, a -adic regulator, and the derivative of a -adic -function. We investigate sufficient conditions for the first conjecture to hold and show that, under additional assumptions, the first...