Detecting Large Simple Rational Hecke Modules for Γ0(N) via Congruences

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Abstract: We describe a novel method for bounding the dimension d of the largest simple Hecke submodule of S2(Gamma0(N);mathbbQ) from below. Such bounds are of interest because of their relevance to the structure of J0(N), for instance. In contrast with previous results of this kind, our bound does not rely on the equidistribution of Hecke eigenvalues. Instead, it is obtained via a Hecke-compatible congruence between the target space and a space of modular forms whose Hecke eigenvalues are easily controlled. For prime levels Nequiv7mod8 our method yields an unconditional bound of dgelog2log2(N/8), improving the known bound of dggsqrtloglogN due to Murty--Sinha and Royer. We also discuss conditional bounds, the strongest of which is dggepsilonN1/2−epsilon over a large set of primes N, contingent on Soundararajan's heuristics for the class number problem and Artin's conjecture on primitive roots. We also propose a number of Maeda-style conjectures based on our data, and we outline a possible congruence-based approach toward the conjectural Hecke simplicity of Sk(mathrmSL2(mathbbZ);mathbbQ).












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