The Rankin-Selberg convolution for Cohen's Eisenstein series of half integral weight (Q2581041)

In the theory of modular forms of half-integral weight one can define both holomorphic and non-holomorphic Eisenstein series. The Fourier expansion of these series can also be formulated arithmetically; the coefficients are non-zero at \(d\) when \(d\) is the discriminant of a quadratic field. In this case the Fourier coefficent at \(d\) is in essence a special value of the zeta-function of the field. This was observed by H. Cohen. The object of this paper is to determine the analytic properties of the ``convolution product'' of two such series. This is done by using an appropriate variant of the Rankin-Selberg method. The interest in these products is that they appear in the explicit formulae for Koecher-Maass series of Siegel-Eisenstein series.