HOLOMORPHIC ALMOST MODULAR FORMS

DOI10.1112/S0024609304003364MaRDI QIDQ4657833zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jens Marklof

Publication date 14 March 2005

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310240

zbMATH Keywords

almost modular formdistribution modulo one

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Distribution modulo one (11J71)

Abstract: Holomorphic almost modular forms are holomorphic functions of the complex upper half plane which can be approximated arbitrarily well (in a suitable sense) by modular forms of congruence subgroups of large index in $$. It is proved that such functions have a rotation-invariant limit distribution when the argument approaches the real axis. An example for a holomorphic almost modular form is the logarithm of $pro{d}_{n=1}^{i}nfty(1-exp(2pii{n}^{2}z))$. The paper is motivated by the author's studies [J. Marklof, Int. Math. Res. Not. {�f 39} (2003) 2131-2151] on the connection between almost modular functions and the distribution of the sequence $n^{2}x$ modulo one.

Review text

A holomorphic almost modular form is defined to be a holomorphic function on the upper half-plane \(\mathbb{H}\) which is periodic mod\,1 and which can be approximated arbitrarily well (in a sense made precise in the present paper) by modular forms on congruence subgroups \(\Gamma_1(N)\) \((<\text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}))\), as \(N\to\infty\). An example of such a function is the logarithm of \[ \prod^\infty_{n=1}(1-\exp(2\pi in^2z))\quad (z\in\mathbb{H}). \] The author proves the following limit theorem: Let \(\xi(z)\) be a holomorphic almost modular form of weight \(\frac12\) and assume that \(x:=\operatorname{Re}z\) is uniformly distributed on \([0,1[\) with respect to Lebesgue measure. Then \(y^{\frac14}\xi(z)\) has a limit distribution \(\nu_\xi\) on \(\mathbb{C}\) that is a probability measure on \(\mathbb{C}\) which is invariant under rotations about the origin. An explicit formula for the variance of the limit distribution is proved for a class of examples. A similar limit theorem is stated for another class of almost modular functions.

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