Let $E$ and $f$ be an Eisenstein series and a cusp form, respectively, of the same weight $k\ge 2$ and of the same level $N$, both eigenfunctions of the Hecke operators, and both normalized so that $a_1\left(f\right)=a_1\left(E\right)=1$. The main result we prove is that when $E$ and $f$ are congruent mod a prime $𝔭$ (which we take in this paper to be a prime of $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ lying over a rational prime $p\>2$), the algebraic parts of the special values $L(E,\chi ,j)$ and $L(f,\chi ,j)$ satisfy congruences mod the same prime. More explicitly, we prove that, under certain conditions,$$\frac{\tau \left(\overline{\chi }\right)L(f,\chi ,j)}{{\left(2\pi i\right)}^{j-1}{\Omega }_f^{\text{sgn}\left(E\right)}}\equiv \frac{\tau \left(\overline{\chi }\right)L(E,\chi ,j)}{{\left(2\pi i\right)}^j{\Omega }_E}(mod𝔭)$$where the...

Special values of certain $L$ functions of the type $L(M,s)$ are studied where $M$ is a motive over a totally real field $F$ with coefficients in another field $T$, and$$L(M,s)=\prod _{𝔭}{L}_{𝔭}(M,𝒩{𝔭}^{-s})$$is an Euler product $𝔭$ running through maximal ideals of the maximal order ${𝒪}_F$ of $F$ and$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill L_{𝔭}(M,X{)}^{-1}& =(1-{\alpha }^{\left(1\right)}(𝔭\left)X\right)·(1-{\alpha }^{\left(2\right)}(𝔭\left)X\right)·...·(1-\alpha (d\left)\right(𝔭\left)X\right)\hfill \\ & =1+A_1\left(𝔭\right)X+...+A_d\left(𝔭\right)X^d\hfill \end{array}$$being a polynomial with coefficients in $T$. Using the Newton and the Hodge polygons of $M$ one formulate a conjectural criterium for the existence of a $p$-adic analytic continuation of the special values. This conjecture is verified in a number of cases related to...

In this work we prove various cases of the so-called “torsion congruences” between abelian $p$-adic $L$-functions that are related to automorphic representations of definite unitary groups. These congruences play a central role in the non-commutative Iwasawa theory as it became clear in the works of Kakde, Ritter and Weiss on the non-abelian Main Conjecture for the Tate motive. We tackle these congruences for a general definite unitary group of $n$ variables and we obtain more explicit results in the...

1. Introduction. Since its genesis over a century ago in work of Jacobi, Riemann, Poincar ́e and Klein [Ja29, Ri53, Le64], the theory of automorphic forms has burgeoned from a branch of analytic number theory into an industry all its own. Natural extensions of the theory are to integrals [Ei57, Kn94a, KS96, Sh94], thereby encompassing Hurwitz’s prototype, the analytic weight 2 Eisenstein series [Hu81], and to nonanalytic forms [He59, Ma64, Sel56, ER74, Fr85]. A generalization in both directions...

At some special points, we establish a nonvanishing result for automorphic L-functions associated to the even Maass cusp forms in short intervals by using the mollification technique.

Let $K=\mathbb{Q}\left(\sqrt{-D}\right)$ be an imaginary quadratic field, and denote by $h$ its class number. It is shown that there is an absolute constant $c\>0$ such that for sufficiently large $D$ at least $c·h{\prod }_{p\mid D}(1-p^{-1})$ of the $h$ distinct $L$-functions $L_K(s,\chi )$ do not vanish at the central point $s=1/2$.

Let $E$ be a modular elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$$L^{\left(n\right)}...$