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Nonvanishing of Central Values of L-functions of Newforms in S2(Γ0(dp2)) Twisted by Quadratic Characters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Samuel Le Fourn
Samuel Le Fourn*
Affiliation:
ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France. samuel.le_fourn@ens-lyon.fr
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We prove that for $d\in \left\{ 2,3,5,7,13 \right\}$ and $K$ a quadratic (or rational) field of discriminant $D$ and Dirichlet character $\chi $, if a prime $p$ is large enough compared to $D$, there is a newform $f\in {{S}_{2}}({{\Gamma }_{0}}(d{{p}^{2}}))$ with sign $(+1)$ with respect to the Atkin–Lehner involution ${{w}_{{{p}^{2}}}}$ such that $L(f\otimes \chi ,1)\ne 0$. This result is obtained through an estimate of a weighted sum of twists of $L$-functions that generalises a result of Ellenberg. It relies on the approximate functional equation for the $L$-functions $L(f\otimes \chi ,\cdot )$ and a Petersson trace formula restricted to Atkin–Lehner eigenspaces. An application of this nonvanishing theorem will be given in terms of existence of rank zero quotients of some twisted jacobians, which generalises a result of Darmon and Merel.

Keywords

14J1511F67nonvanishing of L-functions of modular formsPetersson trace formularank zero quotients of Jacobians
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , 01 June 2017 , pp. 329 - 349
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2017

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