Algebraicity of higher Green functions at a CM point

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the algebraic nature of the value of a higher Green function on an orthogonal Shimura variety at a single CM point. This is motivated by a conjecture of Gross and Zagier in the setting of higher Green functions on the product of two modular curves. In the process, we will study analogue of harmonic Maass forms in the setting of Hilbert modular forms, and obtain results concerning the arithmetic of their holomorphic part Fourier coefficients. As a consequence, we answer a question of Zagier in his 1986 ICM proceeding.