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A quaternionic construction of $p$-adic singular moduli

Number Theory 2020-10-15 v1

Abstract

Rigid meromorphic cocycles were introduced by Darmon and Vonk as a conjectural pp-adic extension of the theory of singular moduli to real quadratic base fields. They are certain cohomology classes of SL2(Z[1/p])\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}[1/p]) which can be evaluated at real quadratic irrationalities and the values thus obtained are conjectured to lie in algebraic extensions of the base field. In this article we present a similar construction of cohomology casses in which SL2(Z[1/p])\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}[1/p]) is replaced by an order in an indefinite quaternion algebra over a totally real number field FF. These quaternionic cohomology classes can be evaluated at elements in almost totally complex extensions KK of FF, and we conjecture that the corresponding values lie in algebraic extensions of KK. We also report on extensive numerical evidence for this algebraicity conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2010.06898,
  title  = {A quaternionic construction of $p$-adic singular moduli},
  author = {Xavier Guitart and Marc Masdeu and Xavier Xarles},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.06898},
  year   = {2020}
}
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