Integral period relations and congruences

TL;DR

This paper proves integral period relations for quadratic base changes of elliptic cusp forms, confirming a Hida conjecture and advancing the understanding of congruences and the Bloch-Kato conjecture in this context.

Contribution

It establishes integral period relations for quadratic base changes, confirming Hida's conjecture and proving the Bloch-Kato conjecture for certain Galois representations.

Findings

Proved integral period relations under mild conditions.

Confirmed Hida's conjecture on congruence numbers.

Established the Bloch-Kato conjecture for specific cases.

Abstract

Under relatively mild and natural conditions, we establish an integral period relations for the (real or imaginary) quadratic base change of an elliptic cusp form. This answers a conjecture of Hida regarding the {\it congruence number} controlling the congruences between this base change and other eigenforms which are not base change. As a corollary, we establish the Bloch-Kato conjecture for adjoint modular Galois representations twisted by an even quadratic character. In the odd case, we formulate a conjecture linking the degree two topological period attached to the base change Bianchi modular form, the cotangent complex of the corresponding Hecke algebra and the archimedean regulator attached to some Beilinson-Flach element.