Canonical period comparison under totally real quadratic base change

Let FF be a totally real number field, let ff be a Hilbert newform of parallel even weight over FF, let FF' be a totally real quadratic extension of FF, and let ff' be the base change of ff to FF'. The canonical periods 4Ωfcan44\Omega_f^{\mathrm{can}}4 and 4Ωfcan44\Omega_{f'}^{\mathrm{can}}4 are defined using the Petersson inner product and congruence numbers. Canonical period comparison conjecture. One has

Ωfcan=(Ωfcan)2\Omega_{f'}^{\mathrm{can}}=(\Omega_f^{\mathrm{can}})^2

up to a pp-adic unit. This comparison relates the canonical periods appearing in the anticyclotomic pp-adic LL-functions before and after totally real quadratic base change; the surrounding argument indicates that such a comparison is expected from the factorization into the base form and its quadratic twist.

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Qingshen Lv and Bingyong Xie, “Comparison of canonical periods under base change”, arXiv:2512.08599 (2025).

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