This paper draws connections between the double shuffle equations and structure of associators; Hain and Matsumoto’s universal mixed elliptic motives; and the Rankin–Selberg method for modular forms for $\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z})$. We write down explicit formulae for zeta elements $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70E}_{2n-1}$ (generators of the Tannaka Lie algebra of the category of mixed Tate motives over $\mathbb{Z}$) in depths up to four, give applications to the Broadhurst–Kreimer conjecture, and solve the double shuffle equations for multiple zeta values in depths two and three.

In a recent important paper, Hoffstein and Hulse [Multiple Dirichlet series and shifted convolutions, arXiv:1110.4868v2] generalized the notion of Rankin–Selberg convolution $L$-functions by defining shifted convolution$L$-functions. We investigate symmetrized versions of their functions, and we prove that the generating functions of certain special values are linear combinations of weakly holomorphic quasimodular forms and “mixed mock modular” forms.

We generalize the work of Bertolini and Darmon on the anticyclotomic main conjecture for elliptic curves to modular forms of higher weight.

We describe algorithms for computing central values of twists of $L$-functions associated to Hilbert modular forms, carry out such computations for a number of examples, and compare the results of these computations to some heuristics and predictions from random matrix theory.

We derive a formula for Greenberg’s L-invariant of Tate twists of the symmetric sixth power of an ordinary non-CM cuspidal newform of weight ≥4, under some technical assumptions. This requires a ‘sufficiently rich’ Galois deformation of the symmetric cube, which we obtain from the symmetric cube lift to GSp(4)/Q of Ramakrishnan–Shahidi and the Hida theory of this group developed by Tilouine–Urban. The L-invariant is expressed in terms of derivatives of Frobenius eigenvalues varying in the Hida family. Our result suggests that one could compute Greenberg’s L-invariant of all symmetric powers by using appropriate functorial transfers and Hida theory on higher rank groups.

In this work we study the moments of central values of Hecke L-functions associated with cubic characters, and establish quantitative non-vanishing result for the L-values.