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 and 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
51 pages, comments welcome