Title: The exceptional zero conjecture for Hilbert modular forms
Description: In the first part of the paper, we construct, using a p -adic analogue of the convolution method of Rankin-Selberg and Shimura, the two variable p -adic L -function attached to a Hida family of Hilbert modular eigenforms of parallel weight. It is shown that the conditions of Greenberg-Stevens [5] are satisfied, from which we deduce special cases of the Mazur-Tate-Teitelbaum conjecture on exceptional zeroes, in the Hilbert modular setting. In the second part of the paper, we investigate exceptional zeroes of higher order. We consider Hilbert modular forms that are obtained from elliptic modular ones by base change. We prove a factorization formula for the p -adic L -function attached to these forms, from which we deduce as corollary, the higher order exceptional zero conjecture in these cases.