The Minkowski ?(x) function, a class of singular measures, quasi-modular and mean-modular forms. I

arXiv1209.4588MaRDI QIDQ6235822FDOQ6235822

Publication date: 20 September 2012

Abstract: The Minkowski question mark function is a rich object which can be explored from the perspective of dynamical systems, complex dynamics, metric number theory, multifractal analysis, transfer operators, integral transforms, and as a function itself via analysis of continued fractions and convergents. Our permanent target, however, was to get arithmetic interpretation of the moments of ?(x) (which are relatives of periods of Maass wave forms) and to relate the function ?(x) to certain modular objects. In this paper we establish this link, embedding ?(x) not into the modular-world itself, but into a space of functions which are generalizations and which we call mean-modular forms. For this purpose we construct a wide class of measures, and also investigate modular forms for congruence subgroups which additionally satisfy the three term functional equation. From this perspective, the modular forms for the whole modular group as well as the Stieltjes transform of ?(x) (the dyadic period function) minus the Eisenstein series of weight 2 fall under the same uniform definition. The main result is the construction of the canonical isomorphism between the spaces of quasi-modular forms and mean-modular forms. This gives unexpected Minkowski question mark function-related interpretation of quasi-modular forms.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Singular functions, Cantor functions, functions with other special properties (26A30)

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