CONSTRUCTION OF INDECOMPOSABLEDEFINITE HERMITIAN FORMS

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Construction of hermitian modular forms of genus 2 from cusp forms of genus 1

One constructs an integral operator, mapping the cusp modular forms of one variable into modular forms relative to Hermitian groups of genus 2 over an imaginary quadratic field. One computes explicitly the Fourier coefficients of the obtained forms.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 144, pp. 51–67, 1985.     

Differential operators on Hermitian Jacobi forms

We study multilinear differential operators on a space of Hermitian Jacobi forms as well as on a space of Hermitian modular forms of degree 2. First we define a heat operator and construct multilinear differential operators on a space of Hermitian Jacobi forms of degree 2. As a special case of these operators, we also study Rankin-Cohen type differential operators on a space of Hermitian Jacobi forms. And we construct multilinear differential operators on a space of Hermitian modular forms of degree 2 as an application of multilinear differential operators on Hermitian Jacobi forms.     

Some aspects of Hermitian Jacobi forms

We introduce a certain differential (heat) operator on the space of Hermitian Jacobi forms of degree 1, show its commutation with certain Hecke operators and use it to construct a map from elliptic cusp forms to Hermitian Jacobi cusp forms. We construct Hermitian Jacobi forms as the image of the tensor product of two copies of Jacobi forms and also from the differentiation of the variables. We determine the number of Fourier coefficients that determine a Hermitian Jacobi form and use the differential operator to embed a certain subspace of Hermitian Jacobi forms into a direct sum of modular forms for the full modular group.     

Graded Lie algebra of Hermitian tangent valued forms

We define the Hermitian tangent valued forms of a complex 1-dimensional line bundle equipped with a Hermitian metric. We provide a local characterization of these forms in terms of a local basis and of a local fibred chart. We show that these forms constitute a graded Lie algebra through the Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket.Moreover, we provide a global characterization of this graded Lie algebra, via a given Hermitian connection, in terms of the tangent valued forms and forms of the base space. The bracket involves the curvature of the given Hermitian connection.     

Differential operators for Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms

Kim (Arch Math (Basel) 79(3):208–215, 2002) constructs multilinear differential operators for Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms. However, her work relies on incorrect actions of differential operators on spaces of Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms. In particular, her results are incorrect if the underlying field is the Gaussian number field. We consider more general spaces of Hermitian Jacobi forms and Hermitian modular forms over \(\mathbb {Q}(i)\), which allow us to correct the corresponding results in Kim (2002).     

Hermitian Symmetric Polynomials and CR Complexity

Properties of Hermitian forms are used to investigate several natural questions from CR geometry. To each Hermitian symmetric polynomial we assign a Hermitian form. We study how the signature pairs of two Hermitian forms behave under the polynomial product. We show, except for three trivial cases, that every signature pair can be obtained from the product of two indefinite forms. We provide several new applications to the complexity theory of rational mappings between hyperquadrics, including a stability result about the existence of non-trivial rational mappings from a sphere to a hyperquadric with a given signature pair.     

A few uncaught universal Hermitian forms

We will complete the list of universal binary Hermitian forms over imaginary quadratic fields by investigating three Hermitian forms missed by previous researchers.

     

Eventual Positivity of Hermitian Polynomials and Integral Operators

Quillen proved that if a Hermitian bihomogeneous polynomial is strictly positive on the unit sphere, then repeated multiplication of the standard sesquilinear form to this polynomial eventually results in a sum of Hermitian squares. Catlin-D'Angelo and Varolin deduced this positivstellensatz of Quillen from the eventual positive-definiteness of an associated integral operator. Their arguments involve asymptotic expansions of the Bergman kernel. The goal of this article is to give an elementary proof of the positive-definiteness of this integral operator.     

A Hermitian Cauchy formula on a domain with fractal boundary

Euclidean Clifford analysis is a higher dimensional function theory offering a refinement of classical harmonic analysis. The theory is centered around the concept of monogenic functions, i.e. null solutions of a first order vector valued rotation invariant differential operator called Dirac operator, which factorizes the Laplacian; monogenic functions may thus also be seen as a generalization of holomorphic functions in the complex plane. Hermitian Clifford analysis offers yet a refinement of the Euclidean case; it focusses on the simultaneous null solutions, called Hermitian (or h-) monogenic functions, of two Hermitian Dirac operators which are invariant under the action of the unitary group. In Brackx et al. (2009) [8] a Clifford-Cauchy integral representation formula for h-monogenic functions has been established in the case of domains with smooth boundary, however the approach followed cannot be extended to the case where the boundary of the considered domain is fractal. At present, we investigate an alternative approach which will enable us to define in this case a Hermitian Cauchy integral over a fractal closed surface, leading to several types of integral representation formulae, including the Cauchy and Borel-Pompeiu representations.     

Graded Hermitian forms and Springer's theorem

An analogue of Springer's theorem on the Witt group of quadratic forms over a complete discretely valued field is proved for Hermitian forms over division algebras over a Henselian field, including some cases where the residue characteristic is 2. Residue forms are defined by means of vector space valuations as Hermitian forms on the graded modules associated with the induced filtrations.     

On nondecomposable positive definite Hermitian forms over imaginary quadratic fields

Methods are presented for the construction of nondecomposable positive definite integral Hermitian forms over the ring of integers R_m of an imaginary quadratic field ℚ(√−m). Using our methods, one can construct explicitly an n-ary nondecomposable positive definite Hermitian R_m-lattice ( L, h) with given discriminant 2 for every n⩾2 (resp. n⩾13 or odd n⩾3) and square-free m = 12 k + t with k⩾1 and t∈ (1,7) (resp. k⩾1 and t = 2 or k⩾0 and t∈ 5,10,11). We study also the case for discriminant different from 2.     

Unitary periods,Hermitian forms and points on flag varieties

Let E be an imaginary quadratic extension of of class number one. We examine certain representation numbers associated to Hermitian forms over E , which involve counting integral points on flag varieties. G. Chinta is partially supported by the NSF and by a Humboldt Research Fellowship.     

Hermitian Groups and K-Theory

This article provides the fundamental constructions and results for Hermitian groups which are necessary for an algebraic understanding of the functors K₁ and K₂ of Hermitian forms. These include a definition of the elementary subgroup EH of a general Hermitian group GH, the Hermitian Whitehead lemma for stabilized GH, a definition of the Hermitian Steinberg group, and the theorem that a stabilized Steinberg group is the universal central extension of its associated stabilized elementary group.     

A Cauchy kernel for the Hermitian submonogenic system

Hermitian monogenic functions are the null solutions of two complex Dirac type operators. The system of these complex Dirac operators is overdetermined and may be reduced to constraints for the Cauchy datum together with what we called the Hermitian submonogenic system (see [8], [9]). This last system is no longer overdetermined and it has properties that are similar to those of the standard Dirac operator in Euclidean space, such as a Cauchy–Kowalevski extension theorem and Vekua type solutions. In this paper, we investigate plane wave solutions of the Hermitian submonogenic system, leading to the construction of a Cauchy kernel. We also establish a Stokes type formula that, when applied to the Cauchy kernel provides an integral representation formula for Hermitian submonogenic functions.     

Ramanujan type congruences for modular forms of several variables

We give congruences between the Eisenstein series and a cusp form in the cases of Siegel modular forms and Hermitian modular forms. We should emphasize that there is a relation between the existence of a prime dividing the (k?1)th generalized Bernoulli number and the existence of non-trivial Hermitian cusp forms of weight k. We will conclude by giving numerical examples for each case.     

Some curvature properties of complex surfaces

Summary In this paper, we are investigating curvature properties of complex two-dimensional Hermitian manifolds, particularly in the compact case. To do this, we start with the remark that the fundamental form of such a manifold is integrable, and we use the analogy with the locally conformal KÄhler manifolds, which follows from this remark. Among the obtained results, we have the following: a compact Hermitian surface for which either the Riemannian curvature tensor satisfies the KÄhler symmetries or the Hermitian curvature tensor satisfies the Riemannian Bianchi identity is KÄhler; a compact Hermitian surface of constant sectional curvature is a flat KÄhler surface; a compact Hermitian surface M with nonnegative nonidentical zero holomorphie Hermitian bisectional curvature has vanishing plurigenera, c₁(M) 0, and no exceptional curves; a compact Hermitian surface with distinguished metric, and positive integral Riemannian scalar curvature has vanishing plurigenera, etc.     

Integral bases for TQFT modules and unimodular representations of mapping class groups

We construct integral bases for the $SO(3)$-TQFT-modules of surfaces in genus one and two at roots of unity of prime order and show that the corresponding mapping class group representations preserve a unimodular Hermitian form over a ring of algebraic integers. For higher genus surfaces the Hermitian form sometimes must be non-unimodular. In one such case, genus three at a fifth root of unity, we still give an explicit basis.     

Curvature identities derived from the integral formula for the first Pontrjagin number

We give an integral formula for the first Pontrjagin number of a compact almost Hermitian surface and derive curvature identities from the integral formula based on the fundamental fact that the first Pontrjagin number in the deRham cohomology group is a topological invariant. Further, we provide some applications of the identities.     

Universal binary Hermitian forms

We will determine (up to equivalence) all of the integral positive definite Hermitian lattices in imaginary quadratic fields of class number 1 that represent all positive integers.