Coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms. (Q1869816)

Inspired by Kolyvagin's celebrated work on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture and works of Waldspurger, Kohnen and Zagier relating the Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight Hecke eigenforms to values of modular \(L\)-functions (there have been a number of works on the indivisibility of the coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms). In this interesting paper, the authors study the distribution of the coefficients \(a(n)\) of half-integral weight modular forms modulo odd primes \(M\) (not integers as stated in the text; see the corrigendum note). As a consequence, they obtain improvements of indivisibility results for the coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms established by \textit{K. Ono} and \textit{C. Skinner} [Ann. Math. (2) 147, No. 2, 453--470 (1998; Zbl 0907.11017)], and precise versions of indivisibility results for the central critical values of quadratic twists of \(L\)-functions associated with integral weight newforms. Moreover, the result also applies to Newman's classical conjecture for the partition function. From the text of the corrigendum: Theorems 1 and 2.3 in the original paper were not stated correctly. In those two results, the integer \(M\) was required to be an odd prime. For completeness, the correct statements are given.