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Let F be a newform of weight 2k on \(\Gamma _0(N)\) with an odd integer N and a positive integer k, and \(\ell \) be a prime larger than or equal to 5 with \((\ell ,N)=1\). For each fundamental discriminant D, let \(\chi _{D}\) be a quadratic character associated with quadratic field \(\mathbb {Q}(\sqrt{D})\). Assume that for each D, the \(\ell \)-adic valuation of the algebraic part of \(L(F\otimes \chi _{D},k)\) is non-negative. Let \(W_{\ell }^{+}\) (resp. \(W_{\ell }^{-}\)) be the set of positive (resp. negative) fundamental discriminants D with \((D,N)=1\) such that the \(\ell \)-adic valuation of the algebraic part of \(L(F\otimes \chi _{D},k)\) is zero. We prove that for each sign \(\epsilon \), if \(W_{\ell }^{\epsilon }\) is a non-empty finite set, then
By this result, we prove that if \(\epsilon \) is the sign of \((-1)^k\), then
These are applied to obtain a lower bound for \(\#\{D\in W_{\ell }^{\epsilon } : |D|\le X \}\) and the indivisibility of the order of the Shafarevich–Tate group of an elliptic curve over \(\mathbb {Q}\). To prove these results, first we refine Waldspurger’s formula on the Shimura correspondence for general odd levels N. Next we study mod \(\ell \) modular forms of half-integral weight with few non-vanishing coefficients. To do this, we use the filtration of mod \(\ell \) modular forms and mod \(\ell \) Galois representations.
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The authors appreciate Ken Ono for his kind and helpful comments. The authors also appreciate a referee for careful reading and useful comments. These comments improved the previous version of this paper. The first author was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (NRF-2019R1A2C1007517). The second author was supported by a KIAS Individual Grant (MG086301) at Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
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Choi, D., Lee, Y. The algebraic parts of the central values of quadratic twists of modular L-functions modulo \(\ell \). Res Math Sci 9, 65 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40687-022-00361-z
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