A product expansion for the discriminant function of Drinfeld modules of rank two (Q1062088): Difference between revisions

One of the most beautiful aspects of the classical theory of elliptic modular forms is the product formula for the form \(\Delta\), \(\Delta =(2\pi i)^{12} q \prod (1-q^ n)^{24}\). Let \(A={\mathbb F}_ q(T)\). Associated to \(\text{GL}(2,A)\) one has a theory of modular forms on the rigid analytic space \(\Omega^ 2\) complete with expansions at cusps, etc. On \(\Omega^ 2\) it was known that there was a cusp form of weight \((q^ 2- 1)\), which was never zero on \(\Omega^ 2\) and which was the unique normalized cusp form of that weight; this form was also denoted ``\(\Delta\) ''. In this paper the author establishes the wonderful fact that this \(\Delta\) also has a product expansion associated to it. Moreover, the terms of this expansion are related to division values (and a ``Fermat equation'') in a manner exactly similar to the above classical formula.