Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms modulo \(\ell\) (Q1128350)

The authors study the indivisibility of the (algebraic) Fourier coefficients for a class of half-integral weight eigenforms. One of the motivations is provided by the connection between the Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms and class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields (Example 3). The theorem has a number of other arithmetic consequences. These concern the central critical \(L\)-values of quadratic twists of even-weight newforms and connections of such values to orders of the Tate-Shafarevich groups of elliptic curves (Corollaries 1-5). The main ingredients in the proof of the theorem are: the proper ``bookkeeping'' of newforms which are related via twisting and Galois conjugation, and the Chebotarev density theorem.