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The rationality of quaternionic Darmon points over genus fields of real quadratic fields

Number Theory 2011-05-19 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Darmon points on p-adic tori and Jacobians of Shimura curves over Q were introduced in previous joint works with Rotger as generalizations of Darmon's Stark-Heegner points. In this article we study the algebraicity over extensions of a real quadratic field K of the projections of Darmon points to elliptic curves. More precisely, we prove that linear combinations of Darmon points on elliptic curves weighted by certain genus characters of K are rational over the predicted genus fields of K. This extends to an arbitrary quaternionic setting the main theorem on the rationality of Stark-Heegner points obtained by Bertolini and Darmon, and at the same time gives evidence for the rationality conjectures formulated in a joint paper with Rotger and by M. Greenberg in his article on Stark-Heegner points. In light of this result, quaternionic Darmon points represent the first instance of a systematic supply of points of Stark-Heegner type other than Darmon's original ones for which explicit rationality results are known.

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@article{arxiv.1105.3721,
  title  = {The rationality of quaternionic Darmon points over genus fields of real quadratic fields},
  author = {M. Longo and S. Vigni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.3721},
  year   = {2011}
}

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