Speaker: 

Ander Steele

Institution: 

UC Santa Cruz

Time: 

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 340P

The overconvergent modular symbols of Stevens provide a natural framework for computing p-adic L-functions of newforms, but the modular symbols (and p-adic L-functions) attached to ordinary Eisenstein series are essentially trivial. Working with a larger space of pseudo-distributions, we construct non-trivial Eisenstein symbols and compute their p-adic L-functions. As a corollary, we compute the p-adic L-function of the "evil twin" Eisenstein series of critical slope. If time permits, I'll discuss work in progress on computing the symmetric square p-adic L-function at Eisenstein points on the eigencurve, as well as applications.