Dissertation

CM-values of p-adic Theta-functions

We prove a p-adic version of the work by Gross and Zagier on the differences between singular moduli by proving a set of conjectures by Giampietro and Darmon, who investigated the factorisation of a rational invariant associated to a pair of CM-points on a genus zero Shimura curve, obtained as the ratio of the CM-values of p-adic Theta-functions.

Author

M. A. Daas

Date

30 October 2024

Links

Thesis in Leiden Repository

As did Gross and Zagier, we give two proofs; an algebraic proof using CM-theory, and more interestingly, also an analytic proof using p-adic infinitesimal deformations of Hilbert Eisenstein series. Since there are no explicit formulae for its cuspidal p-adic deformations, we instead compute the Frobenius traces of the appropriate Galois deformation, and show their modularity via an R=T theorem. This approach aims to bridge the gap between classical CM-theory and the more recent p-adic advances in the theory of real multiplication.

• deformation theory
• galois representations