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Examples of genuine QM abelian surfaces which are modular

Number Theory 2019-01-16 v2

Abstract

Let KK be an imaginary quadratic field. Modular forms for GL(2) over KK are known as Bianchi modular forms. Standard modularity conjectures assert that every weight 2 rational Bianchi newform has either an associated elliptic curve over KK or an associated abelian surface with quaternionic multiplication over KK. We give explicit evidence in the way of examples to support this conjecture in the latter case. Furthermore, the quaternionic surfaces given correspond to genuine Bianchi newforms, which answers a question posed by J. Cremona as to whether this phenomenon can happen.

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@article{arxiv.1804.07225,
  title  = {Examples of genuine QM abelian surfaces which are modular},
  author = {Ciaran Schembri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07225},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages. Published in Research in Number Theory