Remarks on the Fourier coefficients of modular forms

Abstract: We consider a variant of a question of N. Koblitz. For an elliptic curve

E / Q

which is not

Q

-isogenous to an elliptic curve with torsion, Koblitz has conjectured that there exists infinitely many primes

p

such that

is also a prime. We consider a variant of this question. For a newform

f

, without CM, of weight

k g e q 4

, on

G a m m a_{0} (M)

with trivial Nebentypus

c h i_{0}

and with integer Fourier coefficients, let

N_{p} (f) = c h i_{0} (p) p^{k - 1} + 1 - a_{p} (f)

(here

a_{p} (f)

is the

p^{t h}

-Fourier coefficient of

f

). We show under GRH and Artin's Holomorphy Conjecture that there are infinitely many

p

such that

N_{p} (f)

has at most

[5 k + 1 + s q r t l o g (k)]

distinct prime factors. We give examples of about hundred forms to which our theorem applies.

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