On the zeros of a class of modular functions

DOI10.1007/S00026-019-00434-XMaRDI QIDQ2003737zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Naomi Sweeting, Katharine Woo

Publication date 9 July 2019

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04310

zbMATH Keywords

modular functionsnumber theoryzeros

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and automorphic functions (11F03)

Abstract: We generalize a number of works on the zeros of certain level 1 modular forms to a class of weakly holomorphic modular functions whose $q$-expansions satisfy [ f_k(A, au) colon = q^{-k}(1+a(1)q+a(2)q^2+...) + O(q),] where $a(n)$ are numbers satisfying a certain analytic condition. We show that the zeros of such $f_k(au)$ in the fundamental domain of $S{L}_2(mathbbZ)$ lie on $|au|=1$ and are transcendental. We recover as a special case earlier work of Witten on extremal "partition" functions $Z_k(au)$. These functions were originally conceived as possible generalizations of constructions in three-dimensional quantum gravity.

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