
Higher Green functions are real-valued functions of two variables on
the upper half plane which are bi-invariant under the action of a congruence
subgroup, have logarithmic singularity along the diagonal, and satisfy the equation
Delta f =k(1 - k)f, where Delta is a hyperbolic Laplace operator and k is a
positive integer. Such functions were introduced in the paper of
Gross and Zagier "Heegner points and derivatives of $L-series"(1986).
Also it was conjectured in this paper that higher Green's functions have
``algebraic'' values at CM points. In many particular cases this conjecture
was proven by A. Mellit in his Ph. D. thesis. In this talk we will present a
proof of the conjecture for any pair of CM points lying in the same quadratic
imaginary field.
Links:
[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/246