Jacobi forms and the heat operator (Q1358240)

Classically, there are many interesting connections between differential operators and the theory of elliptic modular forms, and many interesting results have been explored. In this paper, we show a way of constructing Jacobi forms using the Rankin-Cohen type bilinear operators involving the heat operators; for any non-negative integer \(v\) we construct explicitly \([ , ]_v\) covariant bilinear differential operators from \(J_{k,m} \times J_{k',m'}\) to \(J_{k+k'+ v,m+m'}\). Here, \(J_{k,m}\) is the space of Jacobi forms of weight \(k\) and index \(m\). The covariant bilinear differential operators constructed are analogous to operators already introduced in the elliptic case by R. Rankin, H. Cohen and extensively studied by D. Zagier, and we call them Rankin-Cohen type operators. Furthermore, we see that this theory is related to the corresponding result for the one-variable case. More precisely, it can be shown that Jacobi forms constructed using the Rankin-Cohen type bilinear operators are related to half-integral weight elliptic modular forms constructed using the original Rankin-Cohen bracket.