On the Bernoulli--Hurwitz periods

Abstract

Let $E$ be an elliptic curve having CM by the ring of integers of an imaginary quadratic field $K$ in which $p$ splits. Following Lichtenbaum, the Bernoulli--Hurwitz numbers of $E$ (i.e., values of Eisenstein series evaluated at $E$ up to normalization) admit integral representations given by a $p$-adic measure constructed from an elliptic function. We show that the periods of this measure are in fact special values of a family of weight one Eisenstein series at the CM curve $E$ equipped with certain level data, and explicitly relate it to Katz's one-variable $p$-adic Eisenstein measure, whereby we derive period formulas of the Bernoulli--Hurwitz measure attached to any ordinary elliptic curve $\mathcal{E}$ defined over a local field. Moreover, by exploiting the modularity of these periods, and thanks to the existence of abundant weight one Hasse-type invariants, we present a novel approach to the interpolation property of the Bernoulli--Hurwitz $p$-adic zeta functions of the ordinary elliptic curve $\mathcal{E}$, and obtain a $p$-adic Kronecker's first limit formula.