Modular forms and Calabi-Yau varieties

Publication date 28 February 2017

Abstract: Given a holomorphic newform

f

of weight

k

and with rational coefficients, a question of Mazur and van Straten asks if there is an associated Calabi-Yau variety

X

over

m a t h b b Q

of dimension

k - 1

such that the

e l l

-adic Galois representation of

f

occurs in the cohomology of

X

in degree

k - 1

. We provide some explicit examples giving a positive answer, and show moreover that such

X

come equipped with an involution

a u

acting by

- 1

on

H^{0} (X, O m e g a^{k - 1})

. We also raise a general question regarding the regular algebraic, (essentially) selfdual cusp forms

p i

on GL

(n)

with

m a t h b b Q

-coefficients, asking for associated Calabi-Yau varieties

X = X_{p} i

(with an involution

a u

on each such

X

such that the quotient variety

X / a u

is rational) carrying the (conjectural) motive of

p i

. We then investigate the compatibility of this with Rankin-Selberg products of modular forms.

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