The Maaß space for Cayley numbers (Q1183084)

The Maaß spaces on the half plane of complex numbers and quaternions of degree two were investigated by Kojima in 1982 and Krieg in 1987, respectively. It was introduced by Maaß in 1979 for the investigation of Saito-Kurokawa's conjecture about the lifting from Siegel modular forms of degree one into degree two. In this paper, we shall consider the Maaß space on the half plane of Cayley numbers of degree two and prove that there is an one-to-one correspondence between the modular form of weight \(k\) in the Maaß space for Cayley numbers and elliptic modular forms on the upper half plane of weight \(k-4\) for positive even integer \(k\geq 4\). The correspondence can be obtained by considering the Fourier-Jacobi expansion of the modular forms in the Maaß space.