On the non-vanishing of $p$-adic heights on CM abelian varieties, and the arithmetic of Katz $p$-adic $L$-functions

Abstract

Let $B$ be a simple CM abelian variety over a CM field $E$, $p$ a rational prime. Suppose that $B$ has potentially ordinary reduction above $p$ and is self-dual with root number $-1$. Under some further conditions, we prove the generic non-vanishing of (cyclotomic) $p$-adic heights on $B$ along anticyclotomic ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-extensions of $E$. This provides evidence towards Schneider's conjecture on the non-vanishing of $p$-adic heights. For CM elliptic curves over $\Q$, the result was previously known as a consequence of work of Bertrand, Gross--Zagier and Rohrlich in the 1980s. Our proof is based on non-vanishing results for Katz $p$-adic $L$-functions and a Gross--Zagier formula relating the latter to families of rational points on $B$.

Ann. Inst. Fourier, to appear

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• On the non-triviality of the $p$-adic Abel-Jacobi image of generalised Heegner cycles modulo $p$, II: Shimura curves

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• The universal $p$-adic Gross-Zagier formula