Congruences for periods of modular forms (Q1092944)

The author gives a Ramanujan-type congruence (modulo the numerator of the kth Bernoulli number) for the odd periods of a weight k cusp form \(\Phi\) on \(SL_ 2({\mathbb{Z}})\) in the cases k-12, 16, 18, 20, 22, and 26 (i.e., when the space \(S_ k\) of such forms is one-dimensional). These congruences may be viewed as analogues of Manin's congruences which have been used to give proofs of the Ramanujan congruences that hold for the coefficients of the weight k normalized cusp form when the space \(S_ k\) is of dimension one. The paper also contains a brief review of the p-adic congruences due to Manin and Vishik, and to Katz. Finally, there is a discussion of the implications that the p-adic congruences have for the existence of a canonical square root for the central critical value of the Hecke L- series attached to \(\Phi\) when \(\Phi\) has rational Fourier coefficients.