English

Yoshida lifts and Selmer groups

Number Theory 2011-12-19 v3

Abstract

Let ff and gg, of weights k>k2k'>k\geq 2, be normalised newforms for Γ0(N)\Gamma_0(N), for square-free N>1N>1, such that, for each Atkin-Lehner involution, the eigenvalues of ff and gg are equal. Let λ\lambda\mid\ell be a large prime divisor of the algebraic part of the near-central critical value L(fg,k+k22)L(f\otimes g,\frac{k+k'-2}{2}). Under certain hypotheses, we prove that λ\lambda is the modulus of a congruence between the Hecke eigenvalues of a genus-two Yoshida lift of (Jacquet-Langlands correspondents of) ff and gg (vector-valued in general), and a non-endoscopic genus-two cusp form. In pursuit of this we also give a precise pullback formula for a genus-four Eisenstein series, and a general formula for the Petersson norm of a Yoshida lift. Given such a congruence, using the 4-dimensional λ\lambda-adic Galois representation attached to a genus-two cusp form, we produce, in an appropriate Selmer group, an element of order λ\lambda, as required by the Bloch-Kato conjecture on values of LL-functions.

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@article{arxiv.1012.5817,
  title  = {Yoshida lifts and Selmer groups},
  author = {Siegfried Böcherer and Neil Dummigan and Rainer Schulze-Pillot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5817},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

v2: Minor revisions, new abstract v3: Minor revisions, to appear in the Journal of the Mathematical Societey of Japan (JMSJ)

R2 v1 2026-06-21T17:04:57.033Z