Tamagawa factors for symmetric squares of Tate curves
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Tamagawa factors for symmetric squares of Tate curves
zbMATH Open document ID: 1051.11031
author: Neil Dummigan
published in: Mathematical Research Letters
publication date: 2004-05-18T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(E/\mathbb{Q}\) be an elliptic curve and \(L(\text{Sym}^2(E),s)\) the symmetric square \(L\)-function attached to \(E\) defined by an Euler product for \(\Re(s)>2\) and which is entire and satisfies a functional equation. The special value \(L(\text{ Sym}^2(E),2)\) may be evaluated using the Rankin-Selberg method [\textit{G. Shimura}, Commun. Pure Appl. Math 29, 783--804 (1976; Zbl 0348.10015)]. \textit{M. Flach} started the comparison [Prog. Math. 116, 23--36 (1994; Zbl 0840.14019)] between this special value and the conjectural Bloch-Kato formula [\textit{S. Bloch} and \textit{K. Kato}, Prog. Math. 86, 333--400 (1990; Zbl 0768.14001)] and obtained some evidence for their conjecture at this case. This is related to a key result in the famous work of Taylor and Wiles [\textit{A. Wiles}, Ann. Math. (2) 141, 443--551 (1995; Zbl 0823.11029); \textit{R. Taylor} and \textit{A. Wiles}, Ann. Math. (2) 141, 553--572 (1995; Zbl 0823.11030)]. Based on the latter papers, \textit{F. Diamond}, \textit{M. Flach} and \textit{L. Guo} [Math. Res. Lett. 8, 437--442 (2001; Zbl 1022.11023), and ``Adjoint motives of modular forms and the Tamagawa number conjecture'', preprint] have proved a general result on the Bloch-Kato conjecture (at \(s=1\)) for the adjoint \(L\)-function of a newform of weight \(k\geq2\). If the new form has trivial character this is equivalent to the symmetric square \(L\)-function at \(s=k\). Applying their result to \(L(\text{Sym}^2(E),2)\) one proves the \(l\)-part of the Bloch-Kato conjecture for primes \(l\geq5\) where \(E\) has good reduction and the representation of \(\text{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})\) on \(E[l]\) is irreducible. In the paper under review, the author deduces a partial result (when \(E[l]\) is irreducible) and produces numerical evidence (when \(E[l]\) is reducible) concerning the \(l\)-part of the Bloch-Kato conjecture for \(L(\text{Sym}^2(E),2)\), where \(l\geq5\) is a prime where \(E\) has multiplicative reduction. The …
reviewed by: Amílcar Pacheco
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11G40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14G10
zbMATH DE Number: 2064730
zbMATH Keywords: elliptic curve
zbMATH Keywords: symmetric square \(L\)-function
zbMATH Keywords: Bloch-Kato conjecture
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: mrl.2003.v10.n6.a3
OpenAlex ID: W2061134332
DOI: 10.4310/MRL.2003.V10.N6.A3
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2064730