English

Modular algorithms for Gross-Stark units and Stark-Heegner points

Number Theory 2023-01-24 v1

Abstract

In recent work, Darmon, Pozzi and Vonk explicitly construct a modular form whose spectral coefficients are pp-adic logarithms of Gross-Stark units and Stark-Heegner points. Here we describe how this construction gives rise to a practical algorithm for explicitly computing these logarithms to specified precision, and how to recover the exact values of the Gross-Stark units and Stark-Heegner points from them. Key tools are overconvergent modular forms, reduction theory of quadratic forms and Newton polygons. As an application, we tabulate Brumer-Stark units in narrow Hilbert class fields of real quadratic fields with discriminants up to 1000010000, for primes less than 2020, as well as Stark-Heegner points on elliptic curves.

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@article{arxiv.2301.08977,
  title  = {Modular algorithms for Gross-Stark units and Stark-Heegner points},
  author = {Håvard Damm-Johnsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08977},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 4 tables, 2 figures

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