Quadratic Minima and Modular Forms

DOI10.1080/10586458.1998.10504372MaRDI QIDQ4227905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barry Brent

Publication date 19 July 1999

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9801072, https://eudml.org/doc/230724, http://www.emis.de/journals/EM/expmath/volumes/7/7.html

zbMATH Keywords

entire modular formFourier serieslevel-two quadratic formsquadratic minima

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20) Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms (11F30)

Abstract: We give upper bounds on the size of the gap between the constant term and the next non-zero Fourier coefficient of an entire modular form of given weight for Gamma_0(2). Numerical evidence indicates that a sharper bound holds for the weights h equiv 2 . We derive upper bounds for the minimum positive integer represented by level two even positive-definite quadratic forms. Our data suggest that, for certain meromorphic modular forms and p=2,3, the p-order of the constant term is related to the base-p expansion of the order of the pole at infinity, and they suggest a connection between divisibility properties of the Ramanujan tau function and those of the Fourier coefficients of 1/j.

Review text

The main results are upper bounds on the size of the gap between the constant term and the next nonzero Fourier coefficient of an entire modular form of given weight for \(\Gamma_0(2)\), generalizing \textit{C. L. Siegel's} result [Nachr. Akad. Wiss. Göttingen, II. Math.-Phys. Kl. 1970, 15-56 (1970; Zbl 0225.10031)] for the full modular group. Numerical evidence indicates that a sharper bound holds for the weights \(n\equiv 2\text{ mod }4\). As an application, upper bounds are derived for the minimum positive integer represented by level-two even positive definite quadratic forms.

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