Let $N$ be an odd and squarefree positive integer divisible by at least two relative prime integers bigger or equal than $4$. Our main theorem is an asymptotic formula solely in terms of $N$ for the stable arithmetic self-intersection number of the relative dualizing sheaf for modular curves $X_1\left(N\right)/\mathbb{Q}$. From our main theorem we obtain an asymptotic formula for the stable Faltings height of the Jacobian $J_1\left(N\right)/\mathbb{Q}$ of $X_1\left(N\right)/\mathbb{Q}$, and, for sufficiently large $N$, an effective version of Bogomolov’s conjecture for $X_1\left(N\right)/\mathbb{Q}$.

We study the local factor at $p$ of the semi-simple zeta function of a Shimura variety of Drinfeld type for a level structure given at $p$ by the pro-unipotent radical of an Iwahori subgroup. Our method is an adaptation to this case of the Langlands-Kottwitz counting method. We explicitly determine the corresponding test functions in suitable Hecke algebras, and show their centrality by determining their images under the Hecke algebra isomorphisms of Goldstein, Morris, and Roche.

La correspondance de Shimizu et Jacquet-Langlands donne des relations entre les quotients de la partie nouvelle de la jacobienne $J_0\left(N\right)$ de $X_0\left(N\right)$ et ceux de la partie nouvelle de la jacobienne de certaines courbes de Shimura associées. Nous comparons dans ce texte les congruences entre formes modulaires pour des quotients qui sont associés dans cette correspondance.

We define Picard cycles on each smooth three-sheeted Galois cover C of the Riemann sphere. The moduli space of all these algebraic curves is a nice Shimura surface, namely a symmetric quotient of the projective plane uniformized by the complex two-dimensional unit ball. We show that all Picard cycles on C form a simple orbit of the Picard modular group of Eisenstein numbers. The proof uses a special surface classification in connection with the uniformization of a classical Picard-Fuchs system....