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Jan Vonk

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arXiv2026

Arithmetic intersections on non-split Cartan modular curves

Let $p$ be a prime number, and let $\Delta_1,\Delta_2 < 0$ be two coprime fundamental discriminants. When $p$ splits in $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{\Delta_1})$ and $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{\Delta_2})$ the height pairings of the corresponding CM divisors on $X_{\mathrm{spl}}^+(p)$ were determined by Gross--Kohnen--Zagier [GKZ87]. When $p$ is inert, we determine the arithmetic intersection numbers of the corresponding divisors on $X_{\mathrm{ns}}^+(p)$ at all finite primes. The key point of our analysis is at the prime of bad reduction $p$: to determine the intersection numbers at $p$, we provide a moduli interpretation for the smooth locus in the regular model of $X_{\mathrm{ns}}^+(p)$ over $\mathrm{Spec}(\mathbb{Z})$ constructed by Edixhoven--Parent [EP24].

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arXiv2023

Quadratic Chabauty for modular curves: Algorithms and examples

We describe how the quadratic Chabauty method may be applied to explicitly determine the set of rational points on modular curves of genus $g>1$ whose Jacobians have Mordell--Weil rank $g$. This extends our previous work on the split Cartan curve of level 13 and allows us to consider modular curves that may have few known rational points or nontrivial local height contributions at primes of bad reduction. We illustrate our algorithms with a number of examples where we determine the set of rational points on several modular curves of genus 2 and 3: this includes Atkin--Lehner quotients $X_0^+(N)$ of prime level $N$, the curve $X_{S_4}(13)$, as well as a few other curves relevant to Mazur's Program B. We also describe the computation of rational points on the genus 6 non-split Cartan modular curve $X_{\textrm{ns}} ^+ (17)$.

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arXiv2021

The values of the Dedekind-Rademacher cocycle at real multiplication points

The values of the so-called {\em Dedekind--Rademacher cocycle} at certain real quadratic arguments are shown to be global $p$-units in the narrow Hilbert class field of the associated real quadratic field, as predicted by conjectures of Darmon, Dasgupta, and Vonk. The strategy for proving this result combines an approach of Darmon-Pozzi-Vonk with one crucial extra ingredient: the study of infinitesimal deformations of irregular Hilbert Eisenstein series of weight one in the anti-parallel direction, building on the techniques in earlier work of Betina, Dimitrov, and Pozzi.

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arXiv2020

Two recent p-adic approaches towards the (effective) Mordell conjecture

We give an introductory account of two recent approaches towards an effective proof of the Mordell conjecture, due to Lawrence--Venkatesh and Kim. The latter method, which is usually called the method of Chabauty--Kim or non-abelian Chabauty in the literature, has the advantage that in some cases it has been turned into an effective method to determine the set of rational points on a curve, and we illustrate this by presenting three new examples of modular curves where this set can be determined.

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arXiv2017

Explicit Chabauty-Kim for the Split Cartan Modular Curve of Level 13

We extend the explicit quadratic Chabauty methods developed in previous work by the first two authors to the case of non-hyperelliptic curves. This results in an algorithm to compute the rational points on a curve of genus $g \ge 2$ over the rationals whose Jacobian has Mordell-Weil rank $g$ and Picard number greater than one, and which satisfies some additional conditions. This algorithm is then applied to the modular curve $X_{s}(13)$, completing the classification of non-CM elliptic curves over $\mathbf{Q}$ with split Cartan level structure due to Bilu-Parent and Bilu-Parent-Rebolledo.

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arXiv2015

Stable models of Hecke operators

We investigate the geometry of correspondences between curves, and prove that correspondences over a non-Archimedean valued field have potentially stable reduction, generalising and strengthening results of Coleman and Liu. This yields a concrete description of the operator on the cohomology of the generic fibres arising from linearisation of the correspondence, via the weight-monodromy filtration and Picard-Lefschetz theory. We explicitly determine stable models of Hecke operators on various quaternionic Shimura curves, and prove a generalisation of the geometric theory of canonical subgroups by Goren and Kassaei.

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arXiv2014

Computing overconvergent forms for small primes

In this note, we construct explicit bases for spaces of overconvergent $p$-adic modular forms when $p=2,3$ and study their stability under the Atkin operator. The resulting extension of the algorithms of Lauder is illustrated with computations of slope sequences of some $2$-adic eigencurves and the construction of Chow-Heegner points on elliptic curves via special values of Rankin triple product L-functions.

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arXiv2012

Normal subgroups of groups acting on trees and automorphism groups of graphs

Let $T$ be a tree and $e$ an edge in $T$. If $C$ is a component of $T\setminus e$ and both $C$ and its complement are infinite we say that $C$ is a half-tree. The main result of this paper is that if $G$ is a closed subgroup of the automorphism group of $T$ and $G$ leaves no non-trivial subtree invariant and fixes no end of $T$ then the subgroup generated by the pointwise stabilizers of half-trees is topologically simple. This result is used to derive analogues of recent results of Caprace and De Medts (2011) and it is also applied in the study of the full automorphism group of a locally finite primitive graph with infinitely many ends.

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