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Arshay Sheth

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arXiv2026

Products of point counts of higher genus curves over finite fields

Let $E/\mathbb Q$ be an elliptic curve and for each prime $p$, let $N_p$ denote the number of points of $E$ modulo $p$. The original version of the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer asserts that $\prod \limits _{p \leq x} \frac{N_p}{p} \sim C (\log x) ^{\text{rank}(E(\mathbb Q))}$ as $x \to \infty$. In this paper, we formulate a similar conjectural asymptotic for smooth projective curves of genus at least 2, in which the contributions to the conjectured asymptotic come not only from the rank of the Jacobian but also from the Sato--Tate group of the curve. The key analytic input in formulating our conjecture is a conjecture due to Kurokawa (2012) on the convergence of Euler products of entire $L$-functions on the critical line. We also provide some numerical evidence for our conjecture in various cases.

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arXiv2026

Real geometric transcendence for the Gamma function

We show that the $x$-axis is the only real algebraic curve in $\mathbb R^2$ whose image via the Gamma function is contained in an algebraic curve. Our proof employs an elegant base-change argument due to Tamiozzo (2023) to deduce the result from the corresponding complex geometric transcendence result of Eterovi\'c, Padgett and Zhao (2025). As an application, we use the complex and real geometric transcendence results to study analogues of the Manin--Mumford conjecture for the Gamma function.

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arXiv2025

Chebyshev's bias for modular forms

We study Chebyshev's bias for the signs of Fourier coefficients of cuspidal newforms on $\Gamma_0(N)$. Our main result shows that the bias towards either sign is completely determined by the order of vanishing of the $L$-function $L(s, f)$ at the central point of the critical strip. We then give several examples of modular forms where we explicitly compute the order of vanishing of $L(s, f)$ at the central point and as a by-product, verify the super-positivity property, in the sense of Yun--Zhang (2017), for these examples.

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arXiv2025

Real geometric transcendence for uniformization maps of algebraic Riemann surfaces

Let $X$ be a smooth connected complex algebraic curve that is not simply connected, and let $\tilde{X}$ be the universal cover of $X$. We study the set of irreducible real algebraic curves in $X$ (seen as a real algebraic surface) containing the image of an arc of a real algebraic curve in $\tilde{X}$. In particular, we give necessary and sufficient conditions on $X$ in order for this set to be non-empty or infinite, and we describe the set explicitly when $X$ is projective of genus one, or $X$ is hyperbolic and its fundamental group is arithmetic.

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arXiv2025

The Asai--Flach Euler system in $p$-adic families

We show that the Euler system for the Asai representation corresponding to a Hilbert modular eigenform over a real quadratic field, constructed by Lei, Loeffler and Zerbes (2018), can be interpolated $p$-adically as the Hilbert modular form varies in a Hida family. This work is used as an important input in recent work of Grossi, Loeffler and Zerbes (2025) on the proof of the Bloch--Kato conjecture in analytic rank zero for the Asai representation.

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arXiv2024

On the $p$-ranks of class groups of certain Galois extensions

Let $p$ be an odd prime, let $N$ be a prime with $N \equiv 1 \pmod{p}$, and let $\zeta_p$ be a primitive $p$-th root of unity. We study the $p$-rank of the class group of $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta_p, N^{1/p})$ using Galois cohomological methods and obtain an exact formula for the $p$-rank in terms of the dimensions of certain Selmer groups. Using our formula, we provide a numerical criterion to establish upper and lower bounds for the $p$-rank, analogous to the numerical criteria provided by F.~Calegari--M.~Emerton and K.~Schaefer--E.~Stubley for the $p$-ranks of the class group of $\mathbb{Q}(N^{1/p})$. In the case $p=3$, we use Redei matrices to provide a numerical criterion to exactly calculate the $3$-rank, and also study the distribution of the $3$-ranks as $N$ varies through primes which are $4,7 \pmod{9}$.

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arXiv2024

Euler Products at the Centre and Applications to Chebyshev's Bias

Let $\pi$ be an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of $\text{GL}_n(\mathbb A_\mathbb Q)$ with associated $L$-function $L(s, \pi)$. We study the behaviour of the partial Euler product of $L(s, \pi)$ at the center of the critical strip. Under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis for $L(s, \pi)$ and assuming the Ramanujan--Petersson conjecture when necessary, we establish an asymptotic, off a set of finite logarithmic measure, for the partial Euler product at the central point that confirms a conjecture of Kurokawa. As an application, we obtain results towards Chebyshev's bias in the recently proposed framework of Aoki-Koyama.

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arXiv2024

Control Theorems for Hilbert Modular Varieties

We prove an exact control theorem, in the sense of Hida theory, for the ordinary part of the middle degree \'etale cohomology of certain Hilbert modular varieties, after localizing at a suitable maximal ideal of the Hecke algebra. Our method of proof builds upon the techniques introduced by Loeffler-Rockwood-Zerbes; another important ingredient in our proof is the recent work of Caraiani-Tamiozzo on the vanishing of the \'etale cohomology of Hilbert modular varieties with torsion coefficients outside the middle degree. This work will be used in forthcoming work of the author to show that the Asai-Flach Euler system corresponding to a quadratic Hilbert modular form varies in Hida families.

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arXiv2023

Euler Product Asymptotics for $L$-functions of Elliptic Curves

Let $E/\mathbb Q$ be an elliptic curve and for each prime $p$, let $N_p$ denote the number of points of $E$ modulo $p$. The original version of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture asserts that $\prod \limits _{p \leq x} \frac{N_p}{p} \sim C (\log x) ^{\text{rank}(E(\mathbb Q))}$ as $x \to \infty$. Goldfeld (1982) showed that this conjecture implies both the Riemann Hypothesis for $L(E, s)$ and the modern formulation of the conjecture i.e. that $\text{ord}_{s=1} L(E, s)= \text{rank}(E(\mathbb Q))$. In this paper, we prove that if we let $r=\text{ord} _{s=1}L(E, s)$, then under the assumption of the Riemann Hypothesis for $L(E, s)$, we have that $\prod \limits _{p \leq x} \frac{N_p}{p} \sim C (\log x)^r$ for all $x$ outside a set of finite logarithmic measure. As corollaries, we recover not only Goldfeld's result, but we also prove a result in the direction of the converse. Our method of proof is based on establishing the asymptotic behaviour of partial Euler products of $L(E, s)$ in the right-half of the critical strip.

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