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Derived $p$-adic heights and the leading coefficient of the Bertolini--Darmon--Prasanna $p$-adic $L$-function

Number Theory 2025-03-19 v2

Abstract

Let E/QE/\mathbb{Q} be an elliptic curve and let pp be an odd prime of good reduction for EE. Let KK be an imaginary quadratic field satisfying the classical Heegner hypothesis and in which pp splits. The goal of this paper is two-fold: (1) We formulate a pp-adic BSD conjecture for the pp-adic LL-function LpBDPL_{\mathfrak{p}}^{\rm BDP} introduced by Bertolini--Darmon--Prasanna. (2) For an algebraic analogue FpBDPF_{{\mathfrak{p}}}^{\rm BDP} of LpBDPL_{\mathfrak{p}}^{\rm BDP}, we show that the ``leading coefficient'' part of our conjecture holds, and that the ``order of vanishing'' part follows from the expected ``maximal non-degeneracy'' of an anticyclotomic pp-adic height. In particular, when the Iwasawa--Greenberg Main Conjecture (FpBDP)=(LpBDP)(F_{{\mathfrak{p}}}^{\rm BDP})=(L_{\mathfrak{p}}^{\rm BDP}) is known, our results determine the leading coefficient of LpBDPL_{\mathfrak{p}}^{\rm BDP} at T=0T=0 up to a pp-adic unit. Moreover, by adapting the approach of Burungale--Castella--Kim, we prove the main conjecture for supersingular primes pp under mild hypotheses. In the pp-ordinary case, and under some additional hypotheses, similar results were obtained by Agboola--Castella, but our method is new and completely independent from theirs, and apply to all good primes.

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@article{arxiv.2308.10474,
  title  = {Derived $p$-adic heights and the leading coefficient of the Bertolini--Darmon--Prasanna $p$-adic $L$-function},
  author = {Francesc Castella and Chi-Yun Hsu and Debanjana Kundu and Yu-Shen Lee and Zheng Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.10474},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted version, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc