Periods of modular forms and applications to the conjectures of Oda and of Prasanna-Venkatesh

Abstract

We establish several formulas relating periods of modular forms on quaternion algebras over number fields to special values of L-functions. Our main inputs are the cohomological techniques for working with periods introduced in [Mol21], along with explicit versions of the Waldspurger formula due to Cai-Shu-Tian. We work in general even positive weights; when specialized to parallel weight 2, our formulas provide partial evidence for the conjectures of Oda and of Prasanna-Venkatesh in the case of forms associated to elliptic curves.