Hecke operators in half-integral weight (Q2454452)

The seminal work of Shimura in establishing the theory of modular forms of half integral weight, and in particular the (Hecke)-correspondence with modular forms of integral weight, is by now well known. In this paper, the author works out some aspects of the theory of Hecke operators for half-integral weight modular forms and the Shimura correspondence. More precisely the author determines: {\parindent=0.6cm\begin{itemize}\item[--] the Hecke relations that determine \(T_{p^{2 \ell}}\) as a polynomial in \(T_{p^2}\) uniformly for all primes \(p\); \item[--] the explicit equivariance properties the \(t\)-th Shimura map with the Hecke operators on half-integral and integral weight respectively (extending \textit{W. Kohnen}'s work [J. Reine Angew. Math. 333, 32--72 (1982; Zbl 0475.10025)]); \item[--] an upper bound on the number of generators of the algebra of Hecke operators as a subset of the endomorphisms of the space of half-integral weight cusp form in question, which is an explicit function of the index of the congruence subgroup and the weight. The result for integral weight can be found in the book by \textit{W. Stein} [Modular forms, a computational approach. Providence, RI: AMS (2007; Zbl 1110.11015)]. \end{itemize}}