Automorphic forms with singularities on Grassmannians

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DOI10.1007/S002220050232zbMATH Open0919.11036arXivalg-geom/9609022OpenAlexW3100469840MaRDI QIDQ1127752FDOQ1127752

Richard E. Borcherds

Publication date: 13 April 1999

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct some families of automorphic forms on Grassmannians which have singularities along smaller sub Grassmannians, using Harvey and Moore's extension of the Howe (or theta) correspondence to modular forms with poles at cusps. Some of the applications are as follows. We construct families of holomorphic automorphic forms which can be written as infinite products, which give many new examples of generalized Kac-Moody superalgebras. We extend the Shimura and Maass-Gritsenko correspondences to modular forms with singularities. We prove some congruences satisfied by the theta functions of positive definite lattices, and find a sufficient condition for a Lorentzian lattice to have a reflection group with a finite volume fundamental domain. We give some examples suggesting that these automorphic forms with singularities are related to Donaldson polynomials and to mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9609022






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