Hello,

thanks a lot. I was suspecting something like that. I have to look at the 
code now.

And indeed, "Gross-Zagier L-functions" does not seem to be a standard name 
for these L-functions.

Frederic

Le mardi 12 mai 2015 17:17:10 UTC+2, chris wuthrich a écrit :
>
> Hi Frederic,
>
> I believe that the name Gross-Zagier L-function is not standard. At least 
> I had to go and look in the code to find out what its definition is. So the 
> documentation should probably include a description of the definition.
>
> Now to your question: The function is L_A(E,s) depending on an elliptic 
> curve E/Q and an ideal class A in an imaginary quadratic field. The 
> functional equation for it is (0.2) on page 267 of Gross-Zagier. 
> You are asking what value of "conductor" you have to feed Dokchitser's 
> implementation. Comparing the two and making sure the same normalisations 
> are used, one should be able to get the answer. If I did it right, I get 
> that the value is N^2 |D|^2/4 where N is the conductor of the elliptic 
> curve and D is the discriminant of the quadratic field. (which may be 4*d). 
> But I may be wrong. (I am actually surprised it is independend of A.)
>
>  In any case, the function check_functional_equation should tell you if 
> you got it right. 
>
> Chris
>  
>
> On 12 May 2015 at 14:15, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> well, in fact what should be the correct conductor (level ?) in full 
>> generality is not clear to me at all. So an expert help is really required !
>>
>> input : An elliptic curve of conductor N, and the imaginary number field 
>> Q(\sqrt(-d))
>>
>> wanted: a formula involving N and d for the "conductor" for the 
>> Gross-Zagier L-function attached to the input. Could it be just always 
>> N*N*d*d ? or sometimes N*N*d*d/4 ?
>>
>> Should I ask that in MathOverflow ?
>>
>> Frederic
>>
>> Le samedi 2 mai 2015 20:24:51 UTC+2, [email protected] a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I think I managed to find the problem myself. The conductor was divided 
>>> by 4 for no special reason..
>>> So this is now working. If somebody is interested to test..
>>>
>>> Frédéric
>>>
>>> Le samedi 2 mai 2015 18:30:55 UTC+2, [email protected] a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Dear number theorists,
>>>>
>>>> To avoid thinking about some other things, I have been fighting with 
>>>> ticket #4606, dealing with "Gross-Zagier L-function" attached to a pair 
>>>> (E,A) where
>>>> E is an elliptic curve over Q and A an ideal class in a quadratic 
>>>> (imaginary?) number field.
>>>>
>>>> I am now in the state where the Dirichlet coefficients of the wanted 
>>>> L-function are computed correctly, but still the numerical answer is wrong.
>>>> So I was wondering if maybe the parameters given to Dokchister may be 
>>>> wrong.
>>>> If somebody here could help, that would be great ! Or maybe forward 
>>>> this question to somebody knowing the answer?
>>>>
>>>> http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/4606
>>>>
>>>> The parameters are in the file src/sage/modular/modform/l_series.py
>>>>
>>>> thanks a lot,
>>>>
>>>> Frédéric
>>>>
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