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The goal of this paper is to study the $p$-adic variation of Heegner points and generalized Heegner classes for ordinary families of quaternionic modular forms. We compare classical specializations of big Heegner points (introduced in the quaternionic setting by one of the authors in collaboration with S. Vigni) with generalized Heegner classes, extending a result of Castella to the quaternionic setting. We also compare big Heegner points with $p$-adic families of generalized Heegner classes, introduced in this paper in the quaternionic setting, following works by Jetchev--Loeffler--Zerbes, \cite{JLZ}, B\"{u}y\"{u}kboduk--Lei and Ota. These comparison results are obtained by exploiting the relation between $p$-adic families of generalized Heegner classes and $p$-families of $p$-adic $L$-functions, introduced in this paper following constructions of Brooks and Burungale-Castella-Kim.

The goal of this article is to obtain a proof of the Main conjectures of Iwasawa theory for rational elliptic curves over anticyclotomic extensions of imaginary quadratic fields, under mild arithmetic assumptions, both in the case where the rational prime $p$ is good ordinary or supersingular.

Assuming specific instances of two general conjectures in arithmetic algebraic geometry (bijectivity of $p$-adic regulator maps, injectivity of $p$-adic Abel-Jacobi maps), we prove several cases of the $p$-part of the Tamagawa number conjecture ($p$-TNC) of Bloch-Kato and Fontaine-Perrin-Riou for (homological) motives of modular forms of even weight $\geq4$ in analytic rank $1$. More precisely, we prove our results for a large class of newforms $f$ and prime numbers $p$ that are ordinary for $f$ and such that the weight of $f$ is congruent to $2$ modulo $2(p-1)$. Inspired by work of W. Zhang in weight $2$, the key ingredient in our strategy is an analogue for $p$-adic Galois representations attached to higher (even) weight newforms of Kolyvagin's conjecture on the $p$-indivisibility of derived Heegner points on elliptic curves, which we prove via a $p$-adic variation method exploiting the arithmetic of Hida families. Along the way, we also prove (under similar assumptions) the $p$-TNC for modular motives in analytic rank $0$ and the rationality conjecture of Beilinson and Deligne on the existence of zeta elements on the fundamental line in analytic ranks $0$ and $1$. Prior to this work, the only known results on (questions related to) the $p$-TNC for modular motives were in weight $2$ and analytic rank $\leq1$ and in even weight and analytic rank $0$. As further applications of our result on Kolyvagin's conjecture in higher weight, we deduce a structure theorem for Selmer groups, $p$-parity results, converse theorems and higher rank results for modular forms and modular motives., Comment: Slight revision, submitted version; 100 pages

The aim of this paper is to prove the two-variable anticyclotomic Iwasawa main conjecture for Hida families and a definite version of the horizontal non-vanishing conjecture, which are formulated in Longo-Vigni. Our approach is based on the two-variable anticyclotomic control theorem for Selmer groups for Hida families and the relation between the two-variable anticyclotomic $L$-function for Hida families built out of $p$-adic families of Gross points on definite Shimura curves studied in Castella-Longo and Castella-Kim-Longo and the self-dual twist of the specialisation to the anticyclotomic line of the three-variable $p$-adic $L$-function of Skinner-Urban., Comment: Title changed. This version may be slightly different from the final version which will appear in JNT

The aim of this note is to compare several anticyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-functions for modular forms and $p$-adic families of ordinary modular forms, which have been defined and studied from different perspectives by Skinner-Urban, Hida, Perin-Riou, Bertolini-Darmon, Vatsal, Chida-Hsieh, Longo-Vigni, Castella-Longo and Castella-Kim-Longo. The main result of this paper is a comparison between the central critical twist of the two-variable anticyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-function obtained as specialisation of the three-variable $p$-adic $L$-function of Skinner-Urban and the two-variable $p$-adic $L$-function introduced by one of the authors on collaboration with Vigni by means of $p$-adic families of Gross points., Comment: This version may be slightly different from the final version which will appear in IJNT

Let $F$ be a totally real field and $\mathscr{E}$ the middle-degree eigenvariety for Hilbert modular forms over $F$, constructed by Bergdall--Hansen. We study the ramification locus of $\mathscr{E}$ in relation to the $p$-adic properties of adjoint $L$-values. The connection between the two is made via an analytic twisted Poincar\'e pairing over affinoid weights, which interpolates the classical twisted Poincar\'e pairing for Hilbert modular forms, itself known to be related to adjoint $L$-values by works of Ghate and Dimitrov. The overall strategy connecting the pairings to ramification is based on the theory of $L$-ideals, which was used by Bella\"iche and Kim in the case where $F = \mathbb{Q}$., Comment: 52 pages. Minor revisions following referee suggestions. Final version

We study a p-adic Shimura-Maass operator in the context of Mumford curves defined by C. Franc is his Ph.D. Thesis. We prove that this operator arises from a splitting of the Hodge filtration, thus answering a question in Franc. We also study the relation of this operator with generalized Heegner cycles, in the spirit of Bertolini-Darmon-Prasanna and Brooks.

A result due to R. Greenberg gives a relation between the cardinality of Selmer groups of elliptic curves over number fields and the characteristic power series of Pontryagin duals of Selmer groups over cyclotomic $\mathbb Z_p$-extensions at good ordinary primes $p$. We extend Greenberg's result to more general $p$-adic Galois representations, including a large subclass of those attached to $p$-ordinary modular forms of level $\Gamma_0(N)$ with $p\nmid N$., Comment: 21 pages

We show that Hida's families of $p$-adic elliptic modular forms generalize to $p$-adic families of Jacobi forms. We also construct $p$-adic versions of theta lifts from elliptic modular forms to Jacobi forms. Our results extend to Jacobi forms previous works by Hida and Stevens on the related case of half-integral weight modular forms., Comment: 22 pages, to appear in Research in Number Theory

We study generalised Heegner cycles, originally introduced by Bertolini-Darmon-Prasanna for modular curves, in the context of Mumford curves. The main result of this paper relates generalized Heegner cycles with the two variable anticyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-function attached to a Coleman family $f_\infty$ and an imaginary quadratic field $K$. Our generalised Heegner cycles allow us to study the restriction of this function to non-central critical lines. The main result expresses the derivative along the weight variable of this anticyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-function restricted to non necessarily central critical lines as a combination of the image of generalized Heegner cycles under a $p$-adic Abel-Jacobi map. In studying generalised Heegner cycles in the context of Mumford curves, we also obtain an extension of a result of Masdeu for the (one variable) anticyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-function of a modular form $f$ and an imaginary quadratic field $K$ at non-central critical integers., Comment: 27 pages

We relate $p$-adic families of Jacobi forms to Big Heegner points constructed by B. Howard, in the spirit of the Gross-Kohnen-Zagier theorem. We view this as a GL(2) instance of a $p$-adic Kudla program., Comment: 16 pages

Stark-Heegner points, also known as Darmon points, were introduced by H. Darmon as certain local points on rational elliptic curves, conjecturally defined over abelian extensions of real quadratic fields. The rationality conjecture for these points is only known in the unramified case, namely, when these points are specializations of global points defined over the strict Hilbert class field $H^+_F$ of the real quadratic field $F$ and twisted by (unramified) quadratic characters of $Gal(H_c^+/F)$. We extend these results to the situation of ramified quadratic characters; more precisely, we show that Darmon points of conductor $c\geq 1$ twisted by quadratic characters of $G_c^+=Gal(H_c^+/F)$, where $H_c^+$ is the strict ring class field of $F$ of conductor $c$, come from rational points on the elliptic curve defined over $H_c^+$., Comment: 20 pages; final version

Iwasawa theory of modular forms over anticyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extensions of imaginary quadratic fields has been studied by several authors, starting from the works of Bertolini-Darmon and Iovita-Spiess, under the crucial assumption that the prime $p$ is unramified in $K$. We start in this article the systematic study of anticyclotomic $p$-adic $L$-functions when $p$ is ramified in $K$. In particular, when $f$ is a weight $2$ modular form attached to an elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{Q}$ having multiplicative reduction at $p$, and $p$ is ramified in $K$, we show an analogue of the exceptional zeroes phenomenon investigated by Bertolini-Darmon in the setting when $p$ is inert in $K$. More precisely, we consider situations in which the $p$-adic $L$-function $L_p(E/K)$ of $E$ over the anticyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of $K$ does not vanish identically but, by sign reasons, has a zero at certain characters $\chi$ of the Hilbert class field of $K$. In this case we show that the value at $\chi$ of the first derivative of $L_p(E/K)$ is equal to the formal group logarithm of the specialization at $p$ of a global point on the elliptic curve (actually, this global point is a twisted sum of Heegner points). This generalizes similar results of Bertolini-Darmon, available when $p$ is inert in $K$ and $\chi$ is the trivial character., Comment: 18 pages

Iwasawa theory of Heegner points on abelian varieties of GL_2 type has been studied by, among others, Mazur, Perrin-Riou, Bertolini and Howard. The purpose of this paper is to describe extensions of some of their results in which abelian varieties are replaced by the Galois cohomology of Deligne's p-adic representation attached to a modular form of even weight >2. In this setting, the role of Heegner points is played by higher-dimensional Heegner-type cycles that have been recently defined by Bertolini, Darmon and Prasanna. Our results should be compared with those obtained, via deformation-theoretic techniques, by Fouquet in the context of Hida families of modular forms., Comment: 20 pages

We study Heegner points on elliptic curves, or more generally modular abelian varieties, coming from uniformization by Shimura curves attached to a rather general type of quaternionic or- ders closely related to those introduced by Hijikata{Pizer{Shemanske in the 80's. We address several questions arising from the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture in this general context. In par- ticular, under mild technical conditions, we show the existence of non-torsion Heegner points on elliptic curves in all situations in which the BSD conjecture predicts their existence.

We characterize finite Galois extensions $K$ of the field of rational numbers in terms of the rings ${\rm Int}_{\mathbb{Q}}(\mathcal O_K)$, recently introduced by Loper and Werner, consisting of those polynomials which have coefficients in $\mathbb{Q}$ and such that $f(\mathcal O_K)$ is contained in $\mathcal O_K$. We also address the problem of constructing a basis for ${\rm Int}_{\mathbb{Q}}(\mathcal O_K)$ as a $\mathbb{Z}$-module., Comment: final version, accepted for publication in J. Number Theory (2016). any comment is welcome

Building on the construction of big Heegner points in the quaternionic setting, and their relation to special values of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions, we obtain anticyclotomic analogues of the results of Emerton-Pollack-Weston on the variation of Iwasawa invariants in Hida families. In particular, combined with the known cases of the anticyclotomic Iwasawa main conjecture in weight $2$, our results yield a proof of the main conjecture for $p$-ordinary newforms of higher weights and trivial nebentypus., Comment: Essentially final version, to appear in Algebra & Number Theory

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb Q$ and let $p\geq5$ be a prime of good supersingular reduction for $E$. Let $K$ be an imaginary quadratic field satisfying a modified "Heegner hypothesis" in which $p$ splits, write $K_\infty$ for the anticyclotomic $\mathbb Z_p$-extension of $K$ and let $\Lambda$ denote the Iwasawa algebra of $K_\infty/K$. By extending to the supersingular case the $\Lambda$-adic Kolyvagin method originally developed by Bertolini in the ordinary setting, we prove that Kobayashi's plus/minus $p$-primary Selmer groups of $E$ over $K_\infty$ have corank $1$ over $\Lambda$. As an application, when all the primes dividing the conductor of $E$ split in $K$, we combine our main theorem with results of \c{C}iperiani and of Iovita-Pollack and obtain a "big O" formula for the $\mathbb Z_p$-corank of the $p$-primary Selmer groups of $E$ over the finite layers of $K_\infty/K$ that represents the supersingular counterpart of a well-known result for ordinary primes., Comment: 26 pages

In \cite{LV}, Howard's construction of big Heegner points on modular curves was extended to general Shimura curves over the rationals. In this paper, we relate the higher weight specializations of the big Heegner points of \emph{loc.cit.} in the definite setting to certain higher weight analogues of the Bertolini-Darmon theta elements. As a consequence of this relation, some of the conjectures formulated in \cite{LV} are deduced from recent results of Chida-Hsieh., Comment: 17 pages

Iwasawa theory of Heegner points on abelian varieties of GL_2 type has been studied by, among others, Mazur, Perrin-Riou, Bertolini and Howard. The purpose of this paper, the first in a series of two, is to describe extensions of some of their results in which abelian varieties are replaced by the Galois cohomology of Deligne's p-adic representation attached to a modular form f of even weight >2. In this more general setting, the role of Heegner points is played by higher-dimensional Heegner cycles in the sense of Nekov\'a\v{r}. In particular, we prove that the Pontryagin dual of a certain Bloch-Kato Selmer group associated with f has rank 1 over a suitable anticyclotomic Iwasawa algebra., Comment: Minor modifications; 27 pages

We propose a refined version of the Beilinson-Bloch conjecture for the motive associated with a modular form of even weight. This conjecture relates the dimension of the image of the relevant p-adic Abel-Jacobi map to certain combinations of Heegner cycles on Kuga-Sato varieties. We prove theorems in the direction of the conjecture and, in doing so, obtain higher weight analogues of results for elliptic curves due to Darmon., Comment: 34 pages

We generalize the $\Lambda$-adic Shintani lifting for $GL_2(Q)$ to indefinite quaternion algebras over $Q$., Comment: 19 pages, to appear in Documenta Math

The theme of this work is the study of the Nekov\'a\v{r}-Selmer group H^1_f(K,T) attached to a twisted Hida family T of Galois representations and a quadratic number field K. The results that we obtain have the following shape: if a twisted L-function of a suitable modular form in the Hida family has order of vanishing r at most 1 at the central critical point then the rank of H^1_f(K,T) as a module over a certain local Hida-Hecke algebra is equal to r. Under the above assumption, we also show that infinitely many twisted L-functions of modular forms in the Hida family have the same order of vanishing at the central critical point. Our theorems extend to more general arithmetic situations results obtained by Howard when K is an imaginary quadratic field and all the primes dividing the tame level of the Hida family split in K., Comment: 22 pages

Let $E_{/_\Q}$ be an elliptic curve of conductor $Np$ with $p\nmid N$ and let $f$ be its associated newform of weight 2. Denote by $f_\infty$ the $p$-adic Hida family passing though $f$, and by $F_\infty$ its $\Lambda$-adic Saito-Kurokawa lift. The $p$-adic family $F_\infty$ of Siegel modular forms admits a formal Fourier expansion, from which we can define a family of normalized Fourier coefficients $\{\widetilde A_T(k)\}_T$ indexed by positive definite symmetric half-integral matrices $T$ of size $2\times 2$. We relate explicitly certain global points on $E$ (coming from the theory of Stark-Heegner points) with the values of these Fourier coefficients and of their $p$-adic derivatives, evaluated at weight $k=2$., Comment: 14 pages. Title changed

We extend a result of Greenberg and Stevens on the interpolation of modular symbols in Hida families to the context of non-split rational quaternion algebras. Both the definite case and the indefinite case are considered., Comment: 27 pages

Building on our previous work on rigid analytic uniformizations, we introduce Darmon points on Jacobians of Shimura curves attached to quaternion algebras over Q and formulate conjectures about their rationality properties. Moreover, if K is a real quadratic field, E is an elliptic curve over Q without complex multiplication and \chi is a ring class character such that L(E/K,\chi,1) is not 0 we prove a Gross-Zagier type formula relating Darmon points to a suitably defined algebraic part of L(E/K,\chi,1); this generalizes results of Bertolini, Darmon and Dasgupta to the case of division quaternion algebras and arbitrary characters. Finally, as an application of this formula, assuming the rationality conjectures for Darmon points we obtain vanishing results for Selmer groups of E over extensions of K contained in narrow ring class fields when the analytic rank of E is zero, as predicted by the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture., Comment: 38 pages, final version, to appear in Journal f\"ur die reine und angewandte Mathematik