P-adic monodromy and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Recent years have witnessed significant breakthroughs in the theory of p-adic Galois representations and p-adic periods of algebraic varieties. This book contains papers presented at the Workshop on p-Adic Monodromy and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, held at Boston University in August 1991.

The workshop aimed to deepen understanding of the interdependence between p-adic Hodge theory, analogues of the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, p-adic uniformization theory, p-adic differential equations, and deformations of Gaels representations.

Much of the workshop was devoted to exploring how the special values of (p-adic and "classical") L-functions and their derivatives are relevant to arithmetic issues, as envisioned in "Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer-type conjectures", "Main Conjectures", and "Beilinson-type conjectures" a la Greenberg and Coates.