P-adic families of modular forms and p-adic Abel-Jacobi maps

Abstract

We show that p-adic families of modular forms give rise to certain p-adic Abel-Jacobi maps at their p-new specializations. We introduce the concept of differentiation of distributions, using it to give a new description of the Coleman-Teitelbaum cocycle that arises in the context of the \(\mathcal {L}\)-invariant.