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Publications and source records attributed to Karim Belabas.
We come back to the construction of p-adic L-functions attached to cusp forms of even weight k in the spirit of G. Stevens, R. Pollack [7] and M. Greenberg [3] with a new unified presentation including the non-ordinary case. This construction is based on Stevens's modular symbols rather than q-developments. We review the proofs in order to obtain an effective algorithm guaranteeing a given p-adic accuracy.
A few pages in Siegel describe how, starting with a fundamental polygon for a compact Riemann surface, one can construct a symplectic basis of its homology. This note retells that construction, specializing to the case where the surface is associated to a congruence subgroup $Γ$ of $SL_2(Z)$. One then obtains by classical procedures a generating system for $Γ$ with a minimal number of hyperbolic elements and a presentation of the $Z[Γ]$-module $Z[P^1(Q)]_0$.
We give theoretical and practical information on the Pari/GP modular forms package available since the spring of 2018. Thanks to the use of products of two Eisenstein series, this package is the first which can compute Fourier expansions at any cusps, evaluate modular forms near the real axis, evaluate L-functions of non-eigenforms, and compute general Petersson scalar products.
We revisit the calculation of the strong Weil curve in an isogeny class of elliptic curves over Q, of the Manin constant and modular degree of an elliptic curve, using modular symbols as defined in [Pollack-Stevens], now implemented in Pari/GP. There is no innovation claim.
Assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, Bach has shown that one can calculate the residue of the Dedekind zeta function of a number field K by a clever use of the splitting of primes p < X, with an error asymptotically bounded by 8.33 log D_K/(\sqrt{X}\log X), where D_K is the absolute value of the discriminant of K. Guided by Weil's explicit formula and still assuming GRH, we make a different use of the splitting of primes and thereby improve Bach's constant to 2.33. This results in substantial speeding of one part of Buchmann's class group algorithm.