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University of Massachusetts Amherst

Doctoral Dissertations

Elliptic curves

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On The Iwasawa Invariants Of Nonordinary Modular Forms, Rylan J. Gajek-Leonard Jun 2022

On The Iwasawa Invariants Of Nonordinary Modular Forms, Rylan J. Gajek-Leonard

Doctoral Dissertations

We extend known results on the behavior of Iwasawa invariants attached to Mazur-Tate elements for p-nonordinary modular forms of weight k=2 to higher weight modular forms with a_p=0. This is done by using a decomposition of the p-adic L-function due to R. Pollack in order to construct explicit lifts of Mazur-Tate elements to the full Iwasawa algebra. We then study the behavior of Iwasawa invariants upon projection to finite layers, allowing us to express the invariants of Mazur-Tate elements in terms of those coming from plus/minus p-adic L-functions. Our results combine with work of Pollack and Weston to relate the …


Elliptic Curves And Power Residues, Vy Thi Khanh Nguyen Nov 2019

Elliptic Curves And Power Residues, Vy Thi Khanh Nguyen

Doctoral Dissertations

Let E1 x E2 over Q be a fixed product of two elliptic curves over Q with complex multiplication. I compute the probability that the pth Fourier coefficient of E1 x E2, denoted as ap(E1) + ap(E2), is a square modulo p. The results are 1/4, 7/16, and 1/2 for different imaginary quadratic fields, given a technical independence of the twists. The similar prime densities for cubes and 4th power are 19/54, and 1/4, respectively. I also compute the probabilities without the technical …