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On Zagier's adele

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Speaker: 
Pavel Guerzhoy
Affiliation: 
U Hawaii/MPI
Date: 
Wed, 26/11/2014 - 14:15 - 15:15
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Number theory lunch seminar
Don Zagier suggested a natural construction, which associates a real number and $p$-adic numbers for all primes $p$ to the cusp form $g=\Delta$ of weight $12$. 
He claimed that these quantities constitute a rational adele. I will discuss the ideas behind a proof of a similar statement when $g$ is a weight $2$ primitive 
form with rational integer Fourier coefficients. This proof makes use of a version of the Hodge decomposition for the formal group law of the rational elliptic 
curve associated with $g$, and boils down to an elementary observation on the integrality of the classical addition law of Weierstrass $\zeta$-function.
 
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