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On the Curves Associated to Certain Rings of Automorphic Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kamal Khuri-Makdisi*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department and Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, American University of Beirut, Bliss Street, Beirut, Lebanon. email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In a 1987 paper, Gross introduced certain curves associated to a definite quaternion algebra $B$ over $\mathbf{Q}$; he then proved an analog of his result with Zagier for these curves. In Gross’ paper, the curves were defined in a somewhat ad hoc manner. In this article, we present an interpretation of these curves as projective varieties arising from graded rings of automorphic forms on ${{B}^{\times }}$, analogously to the construction in the Satake compactification. To define such graded rings, one needs to introduce a “multiplication” of automorphic forms that arises from the representation ring of ${{B}^{\times }}$. The resulting curves are unions of projective lines equipped with a collection of Hecke correspondences. They parametrize two-dimensional complex tori with quaternionic multiplication. In general, these complex tori are not abelian varieties; they are algebraic precisely when they correspond to $\text{CM}$ points on these curves, and are thus isogenous to a product $E\,\times \,E$, where $E$ is an elliptic curve with complex multiplication. For these $\text{CM}$ points one can make a relation between the action of the $p$-th Hecke operator and Frobenius at $p$, similar to the well-known congruence relation of Eichler and Shimura.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2001

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