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Weierstrass mock modular forms and elliptic curves

Number Theory 2015-09-10 v6

Abstract

Mock modular forms, which give the theoretical framework for Ramanujan's enigmatic mock theta functions, play many roles in mathematics. We study their role in the context of modular parameterizations of elliptic curves E/QE/\mathbb{Q}. We show that mock modular forms which arise from Weierstrass ζ\zeta-functions encode the central LL-values and LL-derivatives which occur in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. By defining a theta lift using a kernel recently studied by H\"ovel, we obtain canonical weight 1/2 harmonic Maass forms whose Fourier coefficients encode the vanishing of these values for the quadratic twists of EE. We employ results of Bruinier and the third author, which builds on seminal work of Gross, Kohnen, Shimura, Waldspurger, and Zagier. We also obtain pp-adic formulas for the corresponding weight 2 newform using the action of the Hecke algebra on the Weierstrass mock modular form.

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@article{arxiv.1406.0443,
  title  = {Weierstrass mock modular forms and elliptic curves},
  author = {Claudia Alfes and Michael Griffin and Ken Ono and Larry Rolen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0443},
  year   = {2015}
}

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To appear in Research in Number Theory

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