Mod $\ell$ non-vanishing of self-dual Hecke $L$-values over CM fields and applications

Abstract

Let $λ$ be a self-dual Hecke character over a CM field $K$. Let $\mathfrak{p}$ be a degree one prime of the maximal totally real subfield $F$ of $K$ and $Γ_{\mathfrak{p}}$ the Galois group of the anticyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of $K$ unramified outside $\mathfrak{p}$. We prove that $$L(1,λν)\neq 0$$ for all but finitely many finite order characters $ν$ of $Γ_\mathfrak{p}$ such that $\varepsilon(λν)=+1$. For an ordinary prime $\ell$ with respect to the CM quadratic extension $K/F$, we also determine the $\ell$-adic valuation of the normalised Hecke $L$-values $L^{alg}(1,λν)$. As an application, we complete Hsieh's proof of Eisenstein congruence divisibility towards the CM Iwasawa main conjecture over $K$. Our approach and results complement the prior work initiated by Hida's ideas on the arithmetic of Hilbert modular Eisenstein series, studied via mod $\ell$ analogue of the André--Oort conjecture. The previous results established the non-vanishing only for infinitely many characters $ν$. Our approach is based on the arithmetic of a CM modular form on a Shimura set, studied via arithmetic of the CM field and Ratner's ergodicity of unipotent flows.

Theorems & Definitions (97)

• Theorem 1.1
• Corollary 1.2
• proof
• Remark 1.3
• Theorem 1.4
• Remark 1.5
• Theorem 1.6
• Remark 1.7
• Corollary 1.8
• Theorem 1.9