Aspects of Hecke symmetry: anomalies, curves, and chazy equations (Q2297935)

The authors study some properties of the quasi-automorphic forms for the Hecke groups \(H(m)\) with finite heights \(m\). In particular, they assign to each of the Hecke group \(H(m)\) an algebraic curve whose coefficients \(A^{(m)}_k\) are quasi-automorphic forms. The authors derive an anomaly equation that determines these coefficients and that depends on the quasi-automorphic Eisenstein series \(E^{(m)}_2\). The authors also find that the Eisenstein series \(E^{(m)}_{2 k}\)satisfy a system of \(m\) coupled linear differential equations, that play the part of Ramanujan identities. In the cases of \(m=3\) and \(m=4\), extending some previous results for the modular group, they give a geometric interpretation to these Ramanujan identities in the sense of Gauss-Manin connection on the parameter space of the elliptic curves. Using Ramanujan identities, the authors derive nonlinear ordinary differential equations of order \(m\), that are satisfied by the Eisenstein series \(E^{(m)}_2\) associated to the Hecke groups \(H(m)\), as well as by all \(H(m)\) orbits of \(E^{(m)}_2\). It turns out that these equations of order \(m\) are higher-order analogues of the Chazy equation and possess the Painlevé property.