Let $p$ be an odd prime. We study Mazur's conjecture on the growth of the Mordell--Weil ranks of an elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{Q}$ over $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extensions of an imaginary quadratic field, where $p$ is a prime of good reduction for $E$. In particular, we obtain criteria that may be checked through explicit calculation, thus allowing for the verification of Mazur's conjecture in specific examples.

Rylan Gajek-Leonard Jeffrey Hatley Debanjana Kundu Antonio Lei

A technique for describing scattering states within the nuclear shell model is proposed. This technique is applied to scattering of nucleons by $\alpha$ particles based on ab initio No-Core Shell Model calculations of $^5$He and $^5$Li nuclei with JISP16 NN interaction.

I. A. Mazur A. M. Shirokov A. I. Mazur J. P. Vary

We prove new cases of Fontaine-Mazur conjecture on two-dimensional Galois representations over Q when the residual representation is reducible. Our approach is via a semi-simple local-global compatibility of the completed cohomology and a Taylor-Wiles patching argument for the completed homology in this case. As a key input, we generalize the work of Skinner-Wiles in the ordinary case. In addition, we also treat the residually irreducible case at the end of the paper. Combining with people's earlier work, we can prove the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture completely in the regular case when p is at least 5.

Lue Pan

In 1995, Ehud de Shalit proved an analogue of a conjecture of Mazur--Tate for the modular Jacobian $J_0(p)$. His main result was valid away from the Eisenstein primes. We complete the work of de Shalit by including the Eisenstein primes, and give some applications such as an elementary combinatorial identity involving discrete logarithms of difference of supersingular $j$-invariants. An important tool is our recent work on the so called "generalized cuspidal $1$-motive".

Emmanuel Lecouturier

We prove that the Mazur-Tate elements of an eigenform $f$ sit inside the Fitting ideals of the corresponding dual Selmer groups along the cyclotomic $\mathbb Z_p$-extension (up to scaling by a single constant). Our method begins with the construction of local cohomology classes built via the $p$-adic local Langlands correspondence. From these classes, we build algebraic analogues of the Mazur-Tate elements which we directly verify sit in the appropriate Fitting ideals. Using Kato's Euler system and explicit reciprocity laws, we prove that these algebraic elements divide the corresponding Mazur-Tate elements, implying our theorem.

Matthew Emerton Robert Pollack Tom Weston

In this paper, we show that the projective tensor product of a two-dimen\-sional $\ell^p$ space with a two-dimensional $\ell^q$ space never has the Mazur Intersection Property for a large range of values of $p$ and $q$. For this purpose, we characterise the extreme contractions from $\ell^p_2$ to $\ell^q_2$ and obtain their closure.

Pradipta Bandyopadhyay A. K. Roy

Saturation properties of the JISP16 NN interaction are studied in symmetric nuclear matter calculations, with special attention paid to the convergence properties with respect to the number of partial waves. We also present results of pure neutron matter calculations with the JISP16 interaction.

A. M. Shirokov A. G. Negoita J. P. Vary S. K. Bogner A. I. Mazur E. A. Mazur D. Gogny

The Eisenbud-Mazur conjecture states that given an equicharacteristic zero, regular local ring (R,\mathfrak{m}) and a prime ideal P\subset R, we have that P^{(2)}\subseteq mP. In this paper, we computationally prove that the conjecture holds in the special case of certain prime ideals in formal power series rings.

Ajinkya A More

We establish variant Khintchine inequalities on normed spaces of Hanner type and cotype, in which the Rademacher distribution corresponding to classical Khintchine inequality is replaced by general symmetric distributions. The proof involves the $p$-barycenter and Birkhoff's ergodic theorem. More importantly, by employing these Khintchine inequalities, we get some lower bounds for Banach-Mazur distance between $l^p$-ball and a general centrally symmetric convex body.

Xin Luo Dong Zhang

Let $N$ and $p$ be primes $\geq 5$ such that $p \mid \mid N-1$. In this situation, Mazur defined and studied the $p$-Eisenstein quotient $\tilde{J}^{(p)}$ of $J_0(N)$. We prove a kind of modulo $p$ version of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for the ``$p$-Eisenstein part'' of even quadratic twists of $\tilde{J}^{(p)}$. Our result is the analogue for even quadratic twists of a result of Mazur concerning odd quadratic twists.

Emmanuel Lecouturier Jun Wang