Math 252: Modular Abelian Varieties

On the factors of the jacobian variety of a modular function field

Goro Shimura

What it is about

Shimura constructs A_f as a quotient of J_1(N), construct extra endomorphisms of A_f, and gives a modular proof of Dirichlet's class number formula.

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