Legendre polynomials and the elliptic genus

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Formal groups, (p)-divisible groups (14L05) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Connections of hypergeometric functions with groups and algebras, and related topics (33C80) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Elliptic genera (58J26)

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\textit{J. Dieudonné} [``Special functions and linear representations of Lie groups, (1980; Zbl 0425.22018)] shows that Legendre polynomials can be interpreted as matrix coefficients for finite-dimensional representations of the algebraic group \(SL(2)\). By taking modulo \(p\) of thus representations, the author gives the representation-theoretic interpretations of Schur congruences and some of Honda's congruences, given by \textit{T. Honda} [Osaka J. Math. 3, 131-133 (1976; Zbl 0345.12101)], for the Legendre polynomials. Moreover, he suggests that there might exist some deeper connection between \(GL(2)\) and the elliptic genus.

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