Modular elliptic directions with complex multiplication (with an application to Gross's elliptic curves) (Q633003)

The authors consider an abelian variety \(A_f\) attached by Shimura to a normalized newform \(f \in S_2(\Gamma_1(N))\) under the assumption that some quotient of \(A_f\) is an elliptic curve. They determine the elliptic directions (one-dimensional subspaces) in \(S_2(\Gamma_1(N))\) that correspond to pullbacks of regular differentials of all elliptic curves which are quotients of \(A_f\). In the case of elliptic curves without CM, the authors had previously determined the elliptic directions in [Am. J. Math. 123, No. 3, 475--503 (2001; Zbl 1035.14009)]. The CM case considered in this paper requires both class field theory and the main theorem of complex multiplication. The results are applied to \textit{B. H. Gross}'s elliptic curves [Compos. Math. 45, 155--164 (1982; Zbl 0541.14010)].