Modular Forms and Special Cycles on Shimura Curves

by Stephen S. Kudla, Michael Rapoport, Tonghai Yang

Overview

Modular Forms and Special Cycles on Shimura Curves is a thorough study of the generating functions constructed from special cycles, both divisors and zero-cycles, on the arithmetic surface "M" attached to a Shimura curve "M" over the field of rational numbers. These generating functions are shown to be the q-expansions of modular forms and Siegel modular forms of genus two respectively, valued in the Gillet-Soulé arithmetic Chow groups of "M". The two types of generating functions are related via an arithmetic inner product formula. In addition, an analogue of the classical Siegel-Weil formula identifies the generating function for zero-cycles as the central derivative of a Siegel Eisenstein series. As an application, an arithmetic analogue of the Shimura-Waldspurger correspondence is constructed, carrying holomorphic cusp forms of weight 3/2 to classes in the Mordell-Weil group of "M". In certain cases, the nonvanishing of this correspondence is related to the central derivative of the standard L-function for a modular form of weight 2. These results depend on a novel mixture of modular forms and arithmetic geometry and should provide a paradigm for further investigations. The proofs involve a wide range of techniques, including arithmetic intersection theory, the arithmetic adjunction formula, representation densities of quadratic forms, deformation theory of p-divisible groups, p-adic uniformization, the Weil representation, the local and global theta correspondence, and the doubling integral representation of L-functions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400837168
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/04/2006
Series:	Annals of Mathematics Studies , #161
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Stephen S. Kudla is at the University of Maryland. Michael Rapoport is at the Mathematisches Institut der Universität, Bonn, Germany. Tonghai Yang is at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
Bibliography 21
Chapter 2. Arithmetic intersection theory on stacks 27
Chapter 3. Cycles on Shimura curves 45
Chapter 4. An arithmetic theta function 71
Chapter 5. The central derivative of a genus two Eisenstein series 105
Chapter 6. The generating function for 0-cycles 167
Chapter 6 Appendix. The case p = 2, p | D (B) 181
Chapter 7. An inner product formula 205
Chapter 8. On the doubling integral 265
Chapter 9. Central derivatives of L-functions 351
Index 371