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Anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory of CM elliptic curves

Number Theory 2012-03-20 v4 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We study the Iwasawa theory of a CM elliptic curve EE in the anticyclotomic Zp\mathbf{Z}_p-extension of the CM field, where pp is a prime of good, ordinary reduction for EE. When the complex LL-function of EE vanishes to even order, the two variable main conjecture of Rubin implies that the Pontryagin dual of the pp-power Selmer group over the anticyclotomic extension is a torsion Iwasawa module. When the order of vanishing is odd, work of Greenberg shows that it is not a torsion module. In this paper we show that in the case of odd order of vanishing the dual of the Selmer group has rank exactly one, and we prove a form of the Iwasawa main conjecture for the torsion submodule.

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@article{arxiv.math/0302319,
  title  = {Anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory of CM elliptic curves},
  author = {Adebisi Agboola and Benjamin Howard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0302319},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Final version. To appear in the Annales de L'Institut Fourier