# A rapidly-converging series of the Hasse–Weil L-function associated with an elliptic curve over rationals

I know that for some L-series there is still a rapidly-converging series. My question is about the existence of a such a series for the Dirichlet series of the Hasse–Weil L-function associated with an elliptic curve over rationals. A google search do not gives important answers.

-
Where do you want the series to converge rapidly? If it's the whole complex plane, such a series would be a proof of analytic continuation, which is as hard as modularity. Thus, you probably want to find the associated modular form and look for a rapidly converging series for the L-function of that modular form? –  Will Sawin Nov 20 '12 at 17:22
for any complex number s. I remamber that there is a rapidly converging series obtained by using Lavrik method, but I can't find it. –  Chaos12 Nov 20 '12 at 17:26
Yes, there is a rapidly exponentially converging series for L(E,s) which relies on the functional equation and thus on modularity of E. This has been implemented, see e.g. arxiv.org/abs/math/0207280 If you're more interested in values of s with high imaginary part, then you might need other methods, like the double exponential method. See Pascal Molin's PhD thesis math.jussieu.fr/~molinp/files/these.pdf –  François Brunault Nov 20 '12 at 17:48
Thank you Francois. –  Chaos12 Nov 20 '12 at 18:01

Possibly the answer would be the so-called "approximate functional equation" for the $L$-function. This of course takes as input the modularity of the Hasse-Weil zeta function, and gives rapidly convergent series representing it at any point. I would expect Cremona's book on algorithms for modular elliptic curves to contain a description. Software like Pari/GP implements such algorithms (see the command elllseries).

-
Thank you Denis. I think that there is a rapidly converging series obtained by using Lavrik method, but I can't find it in any reference. –  Chaos12 Nov 20 '12 at 17:42
See the book Analytic Number Theory by Iwaniec and Kowalski –  Stopple Nov 20 '12 at 18:29