Mixed Siegel Modular Forms and Special Valuesof Certain Dirichlet Series

 Let be a Siegel modular form of weight ?, and let be an Eichler embedding, where denotes the Siegel upper half space of degree n. We use the notion of mixed Siegel modular forms to construct the linear map of the spaces of Siegel cusp forms for the congruence subgroup and express the Fourier coefficients of the image of an element under in terms of special values of a certain Dirichlet series. We also discuss connections between mixed Siegel cusp forms and holomorphic forms on a family of abelian varieties.     

Slopes of integral lattices

We use the dyadic trace to define the concept of slope for integral lattices. We present an introduction to the theory of the slope invariant. The main theorem states that a Siegel modular cusp form f of slope strictly less than the slope of an integral lattice with Gram matrix s satisfies f(sτ)=0 for all τ in the upper half plane. We compute the dyadic trace and the slope of each root lattice and we give applications to Siegel modular cusp forms.     

Hecke actions on certain strongly modular genera of lattices

We calculate the action of some Hecke operators on spaces of modular forms spanned by the Siegel theta-series of certain genera of strongly modular lattices closely related to the Leech lattice. Their eigenforms provide explicit examples of Siegel cusp forms.Received: 10 September 2004     

On mod <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis> properties of Siegel modular forms

We prove two results on mod p properties of Siegel modular forms. First, we use theta series in order to construct of a Siegel modular form of weight p−1 which is congruent to 1 mod p. Second, we define a theta operator on q-expansions and show that the algebra of Siegel modular forms mod p is stable under , by exploiting the relation between and generalized Rankin-Cohen brackets.     

Linear dependence among Siegel modular forms

Theorems are given which describe when high enough vanishing at the cusps implies that a Siegel modular cusp form is zero. Formerly impractical computations become practical and examples are given in degree four. Vanishing order is described by kernels, a type of polyhedral convex hull. Received: November 19, 1998 / Revised: July 5, 1999 / Published online: September 5, 2000     

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.     

The extreme core

For a Siegel modular cusp formf of weightk letv(f) be the closure of the convex ray hull of the support of the Fourier series inside the cone of semidefinite forms. We show the existence of the extreme core,C _ext, which satisfiesv(f) ⊇k C_ext for all cusp forms. This is a generalization of the Valence Inequality to Siegel modular cusp forms. We give estimations of the extreme core for general n. For n ≤5 we use noble forms to improve these estimates. Forn = 2 we almost specify the extreme core but fall short. We supply improved estimates for all relevant constants and show optimality in some cases. The techniques are mainly from the geometry of numbers but we also use IGUSA’s generators for the ring of Siegel modular forms in degree two.     

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.     

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.     

Siegel modular forms and representations

This paper explicitly describes the procedure of associating an automorphic representation of PGSp(2n,?) with a Siegel modular form of degree n for the full modular group Γ _n =Sp(2n,ℤ), generalizing the well-known procedure for n=1. This will show that the so-called “standard” and ldquo;spinor”L-functions associated with such forms are obtained as Langlands L-functions. The theory of Euler products, developed by Langlands, applied to a Levi subgroup of the exceptional group of type F _<4, is then used to establish meromorphic continuation for the spinor L-function when n=3. Received: 28 March 2000 / Revised version: 25 October 2000     

Diophantine approximation for negatively curved manifolds

Let M be a geometrically finite pinched negatively curved Riemannian manifold with at least one cusp. Inspired by the theory of Diophantine approximation of a real (or complex) number by rational ones, we develop a theory of approximation of geodesic lines starting from a given cusp by ones returning to it. We define a new invariant for M, theHurwitz constant of M. It measures how well all geodesic lines starting from the cusp are approximated by ones returning to it. In the case of constant curvature, we express the Hurwitz constant in terms of lengths of closed geodesics and their depths outside the cusp neighborhood. Using the cut locus of the cusp, we define an explicit approximation sequence for a geodesic line starting from the cusp and explore its properties. We prove that the modular once-punctured hyperbolic torus has the minimum Hurwitz constant in its moduli space. Received: 24 October 2000; in final form: 10 November 2001 / Published online: 17 June 2002     

On characteristic twists of multiple Dirichlet series associated to Siegel cusp forms

We define a twisted two complex variables Rankin-Selberg convolution of Siegel cusp forms of degree 2. We find its group of functional equations and prove its analytic continuation to . As an application we obtain a non-vanishing result for special values of the Fourier Jacobi coefficients. We also prove the analytic properties for the characteristic twists of convolutions of Jacobi cusp forms. Research Supported by Fondecyt grants 1061147, 7060241.     

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.     

Moduli for pairs of elliptic curves¶with isomorphic N-torsion

We study the moduli surface for pairs of elliptic curves together with an isomorphism between their N-torsion groups. The Weil pairing gives a “determinant” map from this moduli surface to (Z/N Z)^*; its fibers are the components of the surface. We define spaces of modular forms on these components and Hecke correspondences between them, and study how those spaces of modular forms behave as modules for the Hecke algebra. We discover that the component with determinant −1 is somehow the “dominant” one; we characterize the difference between its spaces of modular forms and the spaces of modular forms on the other components using forms with complex multiplication. In addition, we prove Atkin–Lehner-style results about these spaces of modular forms. Finally, we show some simplifications that arise when N is prime, including a complete determination of such CM-forms, and give numerical examples. Received: 20 September 2000 / Revised version: 7 February 2001     

On type numbers of split orders of definite quaternion algebras

In this paper, we shall give a new relation between the arithmetic of quaternion algebras and modular forms; we shall express the type numberT _{q, N} of a split order of type (q, N) as the sums of dimensions of some subspaces of the space of cusp forms of weight 2 with respect to Γ₀(qN) which are common eigenspaces of Atkin-Lehner's involutions.     

Half integral weight Jacobi forms and periods¶of modular forms

By deriving Bol's type result, we show how to construct a Jacobi form with different weight from the given Jacobi form. We also show how this analogous theory related to the classical theory of Bol[1] by using the theta-series expansion of the Jacobi form. Furthermore, the partial converse of Bol's result involving the periods of modular forms reveals a connection between Jacobi forms and periods of modular forms. Received: 28 February 2000 / Revised version: 24 October 2000     

Second moments of twisted Koecher-Maass series

Imai considered the twisted Koecher-Maass series for Siegel cusp forms of degree?2, twisted by Maass cusp forms and Eisenstein series, and used them to prove the converse theorem for Siegel modular forms. They do not have Euler products, and it is not even known whether they converge absolutely for Re(s)>1. Hence the standard convexity arguments do not apply to give bounds. In this paper, we obtain the average version of the second moments of the twisted Koecher-Maass series, using Titchmarsh??s method of Mellin inversion. When the Siegel modular form is a Saito Kurokawa lift of some half integral weight modular form, a theorem of Duke and Imamoglu says that the twisted Koecher Maass series is the Rankin-Selberg L-function of the half-integral weight form and Maass form of weight?1/2. Hence as a corollary, we obtain the average version of the second moment result for the Rankin-Selberg L-functions attached to half integral weight forms.     

Abelian subvarieties of Drinfeld Jacobians and congruences modulo the characteristic

We relate the existence of Frobenius morphisms into the Jacobians of Drinfeld modular curves to the existence of congruences between cusp forms.     

Congruences between Siegel modular forms

Using the moduli theory of abelian varieties and a recent result of Böcherer-Nagaoka on lifting of the generalized Hasse invariant, we show congruences between the weights of Siegel modular forms with congruent Fourier expansions. This result implies that the weights of p-adic Siegel modular forms are well defined.