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Quadratic Chabauty for modular curves and modular forms of rank one

Number Theory 2019-10-28 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we provide refined sufficient conditions for the quadratic Chabauty method to produce a finite set of points, with the conditions on the rank of the Jacobian replaced by conditions on the rank of a quotient of the Jacobian plus an associated space of Chow-Heegner points. We then apply this condition to prove the finiteness of this set for any modular curves Xns+(N)X_{\mathrm{ns} }^+ (N) and X0+(N)X_0 ^+ (N) of genus at least 2 with N prime. The proof relies on the existence of a quotient of their Jacobians whose Mordell-Weil rank is equal to its dimension (and at least 2), which is proven via analytic estimates for orders of vanishing of L-functions of modular forms, thanks to a Kolyvagin-Logachev type result.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08751,
  title  = {Quadratic Chabauty for modular curves and modular forms of rank one},
  author = {Netan Dogra and Samuel Le Fourn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08751},
  year   = {2019}
}

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