Power Residues of Fourier Coefficients of Modular Forms

DOI10.4153/CJM-2005-042-5zbMATH Open1105.11011arXivmath/0309475MaRDI QIDQ3370691FDOQ3370691

Publication date: 8 February 2006

Published in: Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let r : G_Q -> GL_n Q_l be a motivic l-adic Galois representation. For fixed m > 1 we initiate an investigation of the density of the set of primes p such that the trace of the image of an arithmetic Frobenius at p under r is an m^th power residue modulo p. Based on numerical investigations with modular forms we conjecture (with Ramakrishna) that this density equals 1/m whenever the image of r is open. We further conjecture that for such r the set of these primes p is independent of any set defined by Cebatorev-style Galois theoretic conditions (in an appropriate sense). We then compute these densities for certain m in the complementary case of modular forms of CM-type with rational Fourier coefficients; our proofs are a combination of the Cebatorev density theorem (which does apply in the CM case) and reciprocity laws applied to Hecke characters. We also discuss a potential application (suggested by Ramakrishna) to computing inertial degrees at p in abelian extensions of imaginary quadratic fields unramified away from p.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309475

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zbMATH Keywords

Fourier coefficients modular forms power residues

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex multiplication and moduli of abelian varieties (11G15) Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms (11F30)

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