A ring of elliptic modular forms

DOI10.1007/BF01190678MaRDI QIDQ1203550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rolf Busam, Eberhard Freitag, Wolfgang Karcher

Publication date 10 February 1993

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01190678

zbMATH Keywords

defining relationselliptic modular formsgeneratorsprincipal congruence groupring of Siegel modular formstheta multiplier systemthetanullwerte

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Siegel modular groups; Siegel and Hilbert-Siegel modular and automorphic forms (11F46) Theta functions and abelian varieties (14K25)

Review text

In a series of important papers \textit{J. I. Igusa} [Am. J. Math. 88, 221- 236 (1966; Zbl 0146.317); ibid. 86, 392-412 (1964; Zbl 0133.333)] developed a method to study the ring of Siegel modular forms of degree \(n\). For every \(n\) there exist finitely many classical thetanullwerte which are modular forms on a certain congruence group \(\Gamma[4,8]\) (called the Igusa group). Igusa dealt with the question whether all modular forms with respect to this group are generated by these thetanullwerte. In the cases \(n=1\), \(n=2\) he was able to show that this is the case. In his proof Igusa used algebraic-geometric methods (theory of abelian varieties). In this paper we give a very elementary proof in the case \(n=1\). It is based on an analysis of the zeros of the thetanullwerte. In our approach it is important to go down to the principal congruence group \(\Gamma[2]\). \(\Gamma[2]/\pm\Gamma[4,8]\) is a finite abelian group, isomorphic to \(\mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}\). An important step in the proof of the main theorem is the decomposition of the space \([\Gamma[4,8],r/2,v_ \vartheta^ r]\) with respect to the 16 characters of this group. The case \(n=1\) was treated in great detail by \textit{W. Karcher} in his Diplomarbeit (Heidelberg 1991). The method used here can also be transferred to the case \(n=2\).

Recommendations

• A theorem of Igusa on a ring of modular forms of genus two and half-integral weight
• On Siegel modular forms. Part I.
• Siegel modular forms of genus 2 and level 2
• Siegel modular forms of degree 2 over rings
• On Siegel Modular Forms of Degree Three

Cites work

• On Siegel Modular Forms of Genus Two
• On the Graded Ring of Theta-Constants (II)

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• Modular forms for the A₁-tower
• A theorem of Igusa on a ring of modular forms of genus two and half-integral weight
• Rings of Modular Forms on Eichler’s Problem

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