Atkin-Lehner eigenforms and strongly modular lattices (Q1373334)
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Atkin-Lehner eigenforms and strongly modular lattices (English)
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8 November 1998
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There are two arithmetical objects associated with any triple \((k,\ell,\chi)\) consisting of an even positive integer \(k\), a squarefree positive integer \(\ell\), and a character \(\chi\) of the group of Atkin-Lehner involutions on \(\Gamma_0(\ell)\) which maps the Fricke involution to \((-1)^{k/2}\). Namely, there is a space of common Atkin-Lehner eigenforms of weight \(k\), and there is a genus of positive definite lattices in dimension \(2k\). In general, Siegel's weighted mean of the theta series from the latter genus lies in the former space. For an individual lattice, however, the same holds under the condition of strong modularity introduced in this paper. Many interesting lattices known in higher-dimensional Euclidean space are strongly modular, and their theta series are explained by the theory of modular forms.
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modular forms
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Gaussian sums
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quadratic forms
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Atkin-Lehner involutions
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Atkin-Lehner eigenforms
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positive definite lattices
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strong modularity
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theta series
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