On Rubin's variant of the p-adic Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture II

Abstract

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q with complex multiplication by the ring of integers of an imaginary quadratic field K. In 1991, by studying a certain special value of the Katz two-variable p-adic L-function lying outside the range of $p$-adic interpolation, K. Rubin formulated a p-adic variant of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture when $E(K)$ is infinite, and he proved that his conjecture is true for E(K) of rank one. When E(K) is finite, however, the statement of Rubin's original conjecture no longer applies, and the relevant special value of the appropriate $p$-adic L-function is equal to zero. In this paper we extend our earlier work and give an unconditional proof of an analogue of Rubin's conjecture when E(K) is finite.