On the theta operator for modular forms modulo prime powers

DOI10.1112/S0025579315000212MaRDI QIDQ2810727zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Imin Chen, I. Kiming

Publication date 6 June 2016

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3087

zbMATH Keywords

classical theta operatorcyclotomic charactereigenformsEisenstein seriesGalois representationsmodular forms mod \(p^m\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences for modular and (p)-adic modular forms (11F33) Galois representations (11F80)

Abstract: We consider the classical theta operator $heta$ on modular forms modulo $p^m$ and level $N$ prime to $p$ where $p$ is a prime greater than 3. Our main result is that $heta$ mod $p^m$ will map forms of weight $k$ to forms of weight $k+2+2p^{m-1}(p-1)$ and that this weight is optimal in certain cases when $m$ is at least 2. Thus, the natural expectation that $heta$ mod $p^m$ should map to weight $k+2+p^{m-1}(p-1)$ is shown to be false. The primary motivation for this study is that application of the $heta$ operator on eigenforms mod $p^m$ corresponds to twisting the attached Galois representations with the cyclotomic character. Our construction of the $heta$-operator mod $p^m$ gives an explicit weight bound on the twist of a modular mod $p^m$ Galois representation by the cyclotomic character.

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