Superspecial abelian varieties and the Eichler Basis Problem for Hilbert modular forms

Let p be an unramified prime in a totally real field L such that h⁺(L)=1. Our main result shows that Hilbert modular newforms of parallel weight two for Γ₀(p) can be constructed naturally, via classical theta series, from modules of isogenies of superspecial abelian varieties with real multiplication on a Hilbert moduli space. This may be viewed as a geometric reinterpretation of the Eichler Basis Problem for Hilbert modular forms.     

Restricting Hecke-Siegel operators to Jacobi modular forms

We compute the action of Hecke operators on Jacobi forms of “Siegel degree” n and m×m index M, provided 1?j?n−m. We find they are restrictions of Hecke operators on Siegel modular forms, and we compute their action on Fourier coefficients. Then we restrict the Hecke-Siegel operators T(p), Tj(p²) (n−m<j?n) to Jacobi forms of Siegel degree n, compute their action on Fourier coefficients and on indices, and produce lifts from Jacobi forms of index M to Jacobi forms of index M^′ where detM|detM^′. Finally, we present an explicit choice of matrices for the action of the Hecke operators on Siegel modular forms, and for their restrictions to Jacobi modular forms.     

?-adic properties of smallest parts functions

We prove explicit congruences modulo powers of arbitrary primes for three smallest parts functions: one for partitions, one for overpartitions, and one for partitions without repeated odd parts. The proofs depend on ?-adic properties of certain modular forms and mock modular forms of weight 3/2 with respect to the Hecke operators T(?2m).     

Arithmetic properties of coefficients of half-integral weight Maass–Poincaré series

Zagier [23] proved that the generating functions for the traces of level 1 singular moduli are weight 3/2 modular forms. He also obtained generalizations for “twisted traces”, and for traces of special non-holomorphic modular functions. Using properties of Kloosterman-Salié sums, and a well known reformulation of Salié sums in terms of orbits of CM points, we systematically show that such results hold for arbitrary weakly holomorphic and cuspidal half-integral weight Poincaré series in Kohnen’s Γ₀(4) plus-space. These results imply the aforementioned results of Zagier, and they provide exact formulas for such traces.     

Shintani lifts and fractional derivatives for harmonic weak Maass forms

In this paper, we construct Shintani lifts from integral weight weakly holomorphic modular forms to half-integral weight weakly holomorphic modular forms. Although defined by different methods, these coincide with the classical Shintani lifts when restricted to the space of cusp forms. As a side effect, this gives the coefficients of the classical Shintani lifts as new cycle integrals. This yields new formulas for the L-values of Hecke eigenforms. When restricted to the space of weakly holomorphic modular forms orthogonal to cusp forms, the Shintani lifts introduce a definition of weakly holomorphic Hecke eigenforms. Along the way, auxiliary lifts are constructed from the space of harmonic weak Maass forms which yield a “fractional derivative” from the space of half-integral weight harmonic weak Maass forms to half-integral weight weakly holomorphic modular forms. This fractional derivative complements the usual ξ-operator introduced by Bruinier and Funke.     

Congruences for modular forms of weights two and four

We prove a conjecture of Calegari and Stein regarding mod p congruences between modular forms of weight four and the derivatives of modular forms of weight two.     

On the lifting of elliptic cusp forms to cusp forms on quaternionic unitary groups

Let H be a definite quaternion algebra over Q with discriminant DH and R a maximal order of H. We denote by Gn a quaternionic unitary group and put Γn=Gn(Q)∩GL2n(R). Let Sκ(Γn) be the space of cusp forms of weight κ with respect to Γn on the quaternion half-space of degree n. We construct a lifting from primitive forms in Sk(SL₂(Z)) to Sk+2n−2(Γn) and a lifting from primitive forms in Sk(Γ₀(d)) to Sk+2(Γ₂), where d is a factor of DH. These liftings are generalizations of the Maass lifting investigated by Krieg.     

Arithmetic of the Ramanujan-Göllnitz-Gordon continued fraction

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We extend the results of Chan and Huang [H.H. Chan, S.-S. Huang, On the Ramanujan-Göllnitz-Gordon continued fraction, Ramanujan J. 1 (1997) 75-90] and Vasuki, Srivatsa Kumar [K.R. Vasuki, B.R. Srivatsa Kumar, Certain identities for Ramanujan-Göllnitz-Gordon continued fraction, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 187 (2006) 87-95] to all odd primes p on the modular equations of the Ramanujan-Göllnitz-Gordon continued fraction v(τ) by computing the affine models of modular curves X(Γ) with Γ=Γ₁(8)∩Γ₀(16p). We then deduce the Kronecker congruence relations for these modular equations. Further, by showing that v(τ) is a modular unit over Z we give a new proof of the fact that the singular values of v(τ) are units at all imaginary quadratic arguments and obtain that they generate ray class fields modulo 8 over imaginary quadratic fields.

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Exact formulas for traces of singular moduli of higher level modular functions

Zagier proved that the traces of singular values of the classical j-invariant are the Fourier coefficients of a weight 3/2 modular form and Duke provided a new proof of the result by establishing an exact formula for the traces using Niebur's work on a certain class of non-holomorphic modular forms. In this short note, by utilizing Niebur's work again, we generalize Duke's result to exact formulas for traces of singular moduli of higher level modular functions.     

Coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms

In this paper, we study the distribution of the coefficients a(n) of half-integral weight modular forms modulo odd integers M. As a consequence, we obtain improvements of indivisibility results for the central critical values of quadratic twists of L-functions associated with integral weight newforms established in Ono and Skinner (Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms modulo ?, Ann. of Math. 147 (1998) 453-470). Moreover, we find a simple criterion for proving cases of Newman's conjecture for the partition function.     

Construction of entire modular forms of weights 5 and 6 for the congruence group Γ0(4N)

Two classes of entire modular forms of weight 5 and two of weight 6 are constructed for the congruence subgroup ₀(4N). The constructed modular forms as well as the modular forms from [1] will be helpful in the theory of representation of numbers by the quadratic forms in 10 and 12 variables.     

Differential eigenforms

The aim of this paper is to show how differential characters of Abelian varieties (in the sense of [A. Buium, Differential characters of Abelian varieties over p-adic fields, Invent. Math. 122 (1995) 309-340]) can be used to construct differential modular forms of weight 0 and order 2 (in the sense of [A. Buium, Differential modular forms, Crelle J. 520 (2000) 95-167]) which are eigenvectors of Hecke operators. These differential modular forms will have “essentially the same” eigenvalues as certain classical complex eigenforms of weight 2 (and order 0).     

Hecke operators on Drinfeld cusp forms

In this paper, we study the Drinfeld cusp forms for Γ₁(T) and Γ(T) using Teitelbaum's interpretation as harmonic cocycles. We obtain explicit eigenvalues of Hecke operators associated to degree one prime ideals acting on the cusp forms for Γ₁(T) of small weights and conclude that these Hecke operators are simultaneously diagonalizable. We also show that the Hecke operators are not diagonalizable in general for Γ₁(T) of large weights, and not for Γ(T) even of small weights. The Hecke eigenvalues on cusp forms for Γ(T) with small weights are determined and the eigenspaces characterized.     

Twisted Hecke L-values and period polynomials

Let f₁,…,fd be an orthogonal basis for the space of cusp forms of even weight 2k on Γ₀(N). Let L(fi,s) and L(fi,χ,s) denote the L-function of fi and its twist by a Dirichlet character χ, respectively. In this note, we obtain a “trace formula” for the values at integers m and n with 0<m,n<2k and proper parity. In the case N=1 or N=2, the formula gives us a convenient way to evaluate precisely the value of the ratio L(f,χ,m)/L(f,n) for a Hecke eigenform f.     

On some entire modular forms of weights 5 and 6 for the congruence group Г(in0)(4N)

Two entire modular forms of weight 5 and two of weight 6 for the congruence subgroup Γ₀ (4N)are constructed, which will be useful for revealing the arithmetical sense of additional terms in formulas for the number of representations of positive integers by quadratic forms in 10 and 12 variables.     

Iwasawa invariants for the False-Tate extension and congruences between modular forms

For an ordinary prime p?3, we consider the Hida family associated to modular forms of a fixed tame level, and their Selmer groups defined over certain Galois extensions of Q(μp) whose Galois group is G≅Zp?Zp. For Selmer groups defined over the cyclotomic Zp-extension of Q(μp), we show that if the μ-invariant of one member of the Hida family is zero, then so are the μ-invariants of the other members, while the λ-invariants remain the same only in a branch of the Hida family. We use these results to study the behavior of some invariants from non-commutative Iwasawa theory in the Hida family.     

Differential operators on Hilbert modular forms

We investigate differential operators and their compatibility with subgroups of SL₂n(R). In particular, we construct Rankin-Cohen brackets for Hilbert modular forms, and more generally, multilinear differential operators on the space of Hilbert modular forms. As an application, we explicitly determine the Rankin-Cohen bracket of a Hilbert-Eisenstein series and an arbitrary Hilbert modular form. We use this result to compute the Petersson inner product of such a bracket and a Hilbert modular cusp form.     

On the Fourier coefficients of Hilbert-Maass wave forms of half integral weight over arbitrary algebraic number fields

The purpose of this paper is to derive a generalization of Shimura's results concerning Fourier coefficients of Hilbert modular forms of half integral weight over total real number fields in the case of Hilbert-Maass wave forms over algebraic number fields by following the Shimura's method. Employing theta functions, we shall construct the Shimura correspondence Ψ_τ from Hilbert-Maass wave forms f of half integral weight over algebraic number fields to Hilbert-Maass wave forms of integral weight over algebraic number fields. We shall determine explicitly the Fourier coefficients of in terms of these f. Moreover, under some assumptions about f concerning the multiplicity one theorem with respect to Hecke operators, we shall establish an explicit connection between the square of Fourier coefficients of f and the central value of quadratic twisted L-series associated with the image of f.     

A differential equation satisfied by the arithmetic Kodaira-Spencer class

The arithmetic Kodaira-Spencer class of the universal elliptic curve was introduced in [A. Buium, Differential modular forms, J. Reine Angew. Math. 520 (2000) 95-167]; its reduction mod p was explicitly computed by Hurlburt [C. Hurlburt, Isogeny covariant differential modular forms modulo p, Compos. Math. 128 (1) (2001) 17-34]. In this paper the complicated expression of Hurlburt is shown to be the unique solution of a simple partial differential equation subject to a certain initial condition and weight condition.     

Some formulas for the coefficients of Drinfeld modular forms

We obtain some formulas for t-expansion coefficients of meromorphic Drinfeld modular forms for GL₂(F_q[T]). Let j(z) be the Drinfeld modular invariant. As an application we show that the values of j(z) at points in the divisor of Drinfeld modular forms for GL₂(F_q[T]) are algebraic over F_q(T).