Kaneko and Sakai (2013) recently observed that certain elliptic curves whose associated newforms (by the modularity theorem) are given by the eta-quotients can be characterized by a particular differential equation involving modular forms and Ramanujan-Serre differential operator. In this paper, we study certain properties of the modular parametrization associated to the elliptic curves over ℚ, and as a consequence we generalize and explain some of their findings.

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...

We identify the weight four newform of a modular Calabi-Yau manifold studied by Hulek and Verrill. The main obstacle is that this Calabi-Yau manifold is not rigid and has bad reduction at prime 13. Replacing the original fiber product of elliptic fibrations with a fiberwise Kummer construction we reduce the problem to studying the modularity of a rigid Calabi-Yau manifold with good reduction at primes p ≥ 5.

In this paper, we prove that the representation $\rho$ from $G_{\mathbb{Q}}$ in GL${}_2\left(ℂ\right)$ with image $A_5$ in PGL${}_2\left(A_5\right)$ corresponding to the example $16$ in [B-K] is modular. This representation has conductor $5203$ and determinant ${\chi }_{-43}$; its modularity was not yet proved, since this representation does not satisfy the hypothesis of the theorems of [B-D-SB-T] and [Tay2].

This paper is essentially the text of the author’s lecture at the 2001 Journées Arithmétiques. It addresses the problem of identifying in Galois-theoretic terms those two-dimensional, $p$-adic Galois representations associated to holomorphic Hilbert modular newforms.

In this short note we give a new approach to proving modularity of $p$-adic Galois representations using a method of $p$-adic approximations. This recovers some of the well-known results of Wiles and Taylor in many, but not all, cases. A feature of the new approach is that it works directly with the $p$-adic Galois representation whose modularity is sought to be established. The three main ingredients are a Galois cohomology technique of Ramakrishna, a level raising result due to Ribet, Diamond, Taylor,...

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...