Coefficients of modular forms

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(74)90074-2MaRDI QIDQ1844253zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Louis de Branges de Bourcia

Publication date 1974

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-247X(74)90074-2

zbMATH Keywords

coefficients of modular formsformal proof of Ramanujan hypothesisRamanujan's \(\tau\)-function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphic forms, one variable (11F12) Langlands (L)-functions; one variable Dirichlet series and functional equations (11F66)

Review text

Ramanujan's \(\tau\)-function is defined by \[ \sum_{n=1}^\infty \tau(n)x^n =x \prod_{n=1}^\infty (1 - x^n)^{24} \quad\text{ for } \vert x \vert < 1. \] The ``Ramanujan hypothesis is the conjecture that \(\vert \tau(n)\vert \le n^{11/2} d(n)\), where \(d(n)\) is the number of divisors of \(n\). In two earlier papers [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 30, 335--352 (1970; Zbl 0172.10601); ibid. 35, 285--311 (1971; Zbl 0188.34605)], the author gave a ``proof of the Ramanujan hypothesis, and a discussion of the Riemann hypothesis for certain modular forms based on his results on the Ramanujan hypothesis. Unfortunately there is a gap in his proof of the Ramanujan hypothesis. In the present paper, a formal proof of the Ramanujan hypothesis is studied, and the difficulties in the way of a rigorous argument are discussed. An estimate of the coefficients of modular forms is obtained which falls short of the Ramanujan hypothesis. [Note: The main result of this paper is now superseded by Deligne's proof of the Ramanujan hypothesis. ]

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