Abstract. We construct three-variable p-adic families of Galois cohomology classes attached to Rankin convolutions of modular forms, and prove an explicit reciprocity law relating these classes to critical values of L-functions. As a consequence, we prove finiteness results for the Selmer group of an elliptic curve twisted by a 2-dimensional odd irreducible Artin representation when the associated L-value does not vanish.

In this paper we prove the Tamagawa number conjecture of Bloch and Kato for CM elliptic curves using a new explicit description of the specialization of the elliptic polylogarithm. The Tamagawa number conjecture describes the special values of the L-function of a CM elliptic curve in terms of the regulator maps of the K-theory of the variety into Deligne and etale cohomology. The regulator map to Deligne cohomology was computed by Deninger with the help of the Eisenstein symbol. For the Tamagawa number conjecture one needs an understanding of the $p$-adic regulator on the subspace of K-theory defined by the Eisenstein symbol. This is accomplished by giving a new explicit computation of the specialization of the elliptic polylogarithm sheaf. It turns out that this sheaf is an inverse limit of $p^r$-torsion points of a certain one-motive. The cohomology classes of the elliptic polylogarithm sheaf can then be described by classes of sections of certain line bundles. These sections are elliptic units and going carefully through the construction one finds an analog of the elliptic Soul\'e elements. Finally Rubin's ``main conjecture'' of Iwasawa theory is used to compare these elements with etale cohomology.Comment: 60 pages, Latex2

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In this paper we study systematically the ℓ-adic realization of the elliptic polylogarithm in the context of sheaves of Iwasawa modules. This leads to a description of the elliptic polylogarithm in terms of elliptic units. As an application we prove a precise relation between ℓ-adic Eisenstein classes and elliptic Soulé elements. This allows to give a new proof of the formula for the residue of the ℓ-adic Eisenstein classes at the cusps and the formula for the cup-product construction in [HK99], which relies only on the explicit description of elliptic units. This computation is the main input in the proof of Bloch-Kato's compatibility conjecture 6.2. needed in the proof of Tamagawa number conjecture for the Riemann zeta function.

The Tamagawa number conjecture proposed by S. Bloch and K. Kato describes the "special values" of L-functions in terms of cohomological data. The main conjecture of Iwasawa theory describes a p-adic L-function in terms of the structure of modules for the Iwasawa algebra. We give a complete proof of both conjectures (up to the prime 2) for L-functions attached to Dirichlet characters.We use the insight of Kato and B. Perrin-Riou that these two conjectures can be seen as incarnations of the same mathematical content. In particular, they imply each other. By a bootstrapping process using the theory of Euler systems and explicit reciprocity laws, both conjectures are reduced to the analytic class number formula. Technical problems with primes dividing the order of the character are avoided by using the correct cohomological formulation of the main conjecture.