Generators for modules of vector-valued Picard modular forms

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Abstract: We construct generators for modules of vector-valued Picard modular forms on a unitary group of type (2,1) over the Eisenstein integers. We also calculate eigenvalues of Hecke operators acting on cusp forms.


The forms considered here are Picard modular forms over the Eisenstein integers, i.e.\ with \(F={\mathbb Q}(\sqrt{-3})\), mostly for the congruence subgroup \(\Gamma_1[\sqrt{-3}]\) consisting of elements of determinant~\(1\) congruent to the identity mod~\(\sqrt{-3}\). As there is more than one normalisation (or realisation of the ball in \({\mathbb P}^2({\mathbb C})\)) in use, some care is needed with the definitions of the subgroups and of the factors of automorphy that define the modular forms.NEWLINENEWLINEAfter such preliminaries the authors consider vector-valued modular forms, with a character \(\chi\): the weight is now a pair of integers \((j,k)\) and the character is usually \(\det^\ell\) for some \(\ell\). Drawing on previous work on scalar-valued forms, they describe the rings of Hecke operators and how they act on modular forms. The main point is then to construct some examples, using Eisenstein series and a variant of Rankin-Cohen brackets. For small~\(j\) they are able to give a complete description of the modules of modular and cusp forms, and to compute Hecke eigenspaces and eigenvalues.











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