For an odd prime p, we prove the p-part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer formula for semistable elliptic curves of analytic rank one.

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In this paper we prove the Iwasawa main conjecture for the Rankin-Selberg product of a general modular form and a CM form of higher weight. This result has been used by others to prove the converse of the theorem of Gross-Zagier and Kolyvagin, and the BSD formula for elliptic curves of analytic rank one.

In two recent papers by Barry (2010) [29] and (2011) [30], it is conjectured that Somos-4 admits a solution expressed in terms of Hankel determinant with its elements satisfying a convolution recursion relation. In this paper, Barrys conjecture on Somos-4 is firstly confirmed. Actually, we present a more generalized result. The proof is mainly based on new findings on properties for so-called BlockHankel determinants. The method can also be used to prove another conjecture proposed by Michael Somos, which has been solved by Guoce Xin.

In this paper, we reprove a global converse theorem of Cogdell and Piatetski-Shapiro using purely global methods.