A Classical Diophantine Problem and Modular Forms of Weight 3/2.
In this paper we apply the results of our previous article on the -adic interpolation of logarithmic derivatives of formal groups to the construction of -adic -functions attached to certain elliptic curves with complex multiplication. Our results are primarily concerned with curves with supersingular reduction.
We consider zeta functions with values in the Grothendieck ring of Chow motives. Investigating the –structure of this ring, we deduce a functional equation for the zeta function of abelian varieties. Furthermore, we show that the property of having a rational zeta function satisfying a functional equation is preserved under products.