We study the adjunction property of the Jacquet-Emerton functor in certain neighborhoods of critical points in the eigencurve. As an application, we construct two-variable $p$-adic $L$-functions around critical points via Emertons representation theoretic approach.
The Ichino-Ikeda conjecture, and its generalization to unitary groups by N. Harris, has given explicit formulas for central critical values of a large class of Rankin-Selberg tensor products. Although the conjecture is not proved in full generality, there has been considerable progress, especially for $L$-values of the form $L(1/2,BC(pi) times BC(pi))$, where $pi$ and $pi$ are cohomological automorphic representations of unitary groups $U(V)$ and $U(V)$, respectively. Here $V$ and $V$ are hermitian spaces over a CM field, $V$ of dimension $n$, $V$ of codimension $1$ in $V$, and $BC$ denotes the twisted base change to $GL(n) times GL(n-1)$. This paper contains the first steps toward generalizing the construction of my paper with Tilouine on triple product $L$-functions to this situation. We assume $pi$ is a holomorphic representation and $pi$ varies in an ordinary Hida family (of antiholomorphic forms). The construction of the measure attached to $pi$ uses recent work of Eischen, Fintzen, Mantovan, and Varma.
In this paper, we focus on a family of generalized Kloosterman sums over the torus. With a few changes to Haessig and Sperbers construction, we derive some relative $p$-adic cohomologies corresponding to the $L$-functions. We present explicit forms of bases of top dimensional cohomology spaces, so to obtain a concrete method to compute lower bounds of Newton polygons of the $L$-functions. Using the theory of GKZ system, we derive the Dworks deformation equation for our family. Furthermore, with the help of Dworks dual theory and deformation theory, the strong Frobenius structure of this equation is established. Our work adds some new evidences for Dworks conjecture.
We define an integral version of Sczechs Eisenstein cocycle on GLn by smoothing at a prime ell. As a result we obtain a new proof of the integrality of the values at nonpositive integers of the smoothed partial zeta functions associated to ray class extensions of totally real fields. We also obtain a new construction of the p-adic L-functions associated to these extensions. Our cohomological construction allows for a study of the leading term of these p-adic L-functions at s=0. We apply Spiesss formalism to prove that the order of vanishing at s=0 is at least equal to the expected one, as conjectured by Gross. This result was already known from Wiles proof of the Iwasawa Main Conjecture.
We explicitly compute the adjoint L-function of those L-packets of representations of the group GSp(4) over a p-adic field of characteristic zero that contain non-supercuspidal representations. As an application we verify a conjecture of Gross-Prasad and Rallis in this case. The conjecture states that the adjoint L-function has a pole at s=1 if and only if the L-packet contains a generic representation.
In 1922, Mordell conjectured the striking statement that for a polynomial equation $f(x,y)=0$, if the topology of the set of complex number solutions is complicated enough, then the set of rational number solutions is finite. This was proved by Faltings in 1983, and again by a different method by Vojta in 1991, but neither proof provided a way to provably find all the rational solutions, so the search for other proofs has continued. Recently, Lawrence and Venkatesh found a third proof, relying on variation in families of $p$-adic Galois representations; this is the subject of the present exposition.