Shimura and Shintani liftings of certain cusp forms of half-integral and integral weights (Q2179260)

\textit{W. Kohnen} [Math. Ann. 271, 237--268 (1985; Zbl 0542.10018)] constructed explicit Shintani lifts from the space of cusp forms of weight \(2k\) on \(\Gamma_0(N)\), which are mapped into the Kohnen plus space \(S_{k+1/2}^+(\Gamma_0(4N))\), where \(N\) is an odd integer. This lifting is adjoint to the (modified) Shimura map defined by him with respect to the Petersson scalar product. Using this construction along with the theory of newforms on \(S_{k+1/2}^+(\Gamma_0(4N))\), he derived explicit Waldspurger theorem for the newforms belonging to the space \(S_{k+1/2}^+(\Gamma_0(4N))\). Here \(N\) is an odd square-free natural number. Furthermore, Kohnen considered \(\pm 1\) eigensubspaces corresponding to the Atkin-Lehner involution and showed that the intersection of this \(\pm\) spaces with the corresponding newform spaces are isomorphic under the Shimura correspondence. A natural question is whether a similar result can be obtained for the intersection of this \((\pm 1)\) subspaces with the space of oldforms. In this direction, \textit{S. Choi} and \textit{C. H. Kim} [Open Math. 15, 304--316 (2017; Zbl 1422.11084)] considered the case where \(N\) is an odd prime \(p\) and constructed similar Shimura and Shintani maps between subspaces of forms of half-integral and integral weights. The subspaces considered by Choi and Kim are nothing but \(+1\) eigenspace under the Fricke involution. In the paper under review, the authors generalise the work of Choi and Kim to the case where \(N\) is an odd squarefree natural number.