Numerical experiments on families of \(p\)-adic modular forms. (English) Zbl 0990.11029

Coleman, R.; Stevens, G.; Teitelbaum, J.

Buell, D. A. (ed.) et al., Computational perspectives on number theory. Proceedings of a conference in honor of A. O. L. Atkin, Chicago, IL, USA, September 1995. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math. 7, 143-158 (1998).

The authors prove several special cases of the Gouvea-Mazur conjectures concerning the existence of congruences between over-convergent \(p\)-adic modular forms. The basic ingredients are: a numerical analysis of the geometry of the zero locus of the characteristic series of Atkin’s \(U\) operator, and Koike’s formula [M. Koike, Nagoya Math. J. 56, 45-52 (1975; Zbl 0301.10026)]. They obtain lower bounds for the corresponding Newton polygon. They apply Koike’s formula to the problem of computing \(p\)-adic periods of modular forms and provide some examples.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0881.00035].

Reviewer: A.Dabrowski (Szczecin)

MSC:

11F33	Congruences for modular and \(p\)-adic modular forms
11Y35	Analytic computations

Keywords:

Newton polygon; \(L\)-invariant; Gouvea-Mazur conjectures; existence of congruences; over-convergent \(p\)-adic modular forms; Atkin’s \(U\) operator; \(p\)-adic periods

Citations:

Zbl 0301.10026