On local constants associated to arithmetical automorphic functions (Q959027)

This article concerns with the characterization of the \(\overline Q\)-rational functions of the canonical models of the Shimura curves associated to the indefinite quaternion Q-algebra of discriminant 6, through their expansions at CM-points. The authors derive an interesting formula which expresses a particular quaternionic automorphic function through quotients of Siegel automorphic forms. They introduce some local parameters ad obtain explicit expansions at the elliptic points and SCM-points for the functions defining the canonical models. The authors give the form of these local parameters depending on a constant \(k_p\) of the same transcendence class as certain products of values of Euler's gamma function at rational arguments. They prove that the constants \(k_p\) agree, up to algebraic elements, with some specific constants \(\pi_d\) which only depend on the discriminant \(d\) of the field of complex multiplication. Finally, the authors stress the arithmetical meaning of the parameters \(\pi_d\) that is, that they allow the characterization of the canonical models through series expansions.