Value at 2 of the L-function of an elliptic curve
Abstract
We study the special value at 2 of L-functions of modular forms of weight 2 on congruence subgroups of the modular group. We prove an explicit version of Beilinson's theorem for the modular curve X_1(N). When N is prime, we deduce that the target space of Beilinson's regulator map is generated by the images of Milnor symbols associated to modular units of X_1(N). We also suggest a reformulation of Zagier's conjecture on L(E,2) for the jacobian J_1(N) of X_1(N), where E is an elliptic curve of conductor N. In this direction we define an analogue of the elliptic dilogarithm for any jacobian J : it is a function R_J from the complex points of J to a finite-dimensional vector space. In the case J=J_1(N), we establish a link between the aforementioned L-values and the function R_J evaluated at Q-rational points of the cuspidal subgroup of J.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- February 2006
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.math/0602186
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math/0602186
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhDT.......287B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Number Theory;
- 11F67
- E-Print:
- 155 pages, PhD thesis, French, with an appendix by Loic Merel