Quadratic minima and modular forms II

DOI10.4064/AA96-4-8MaRDI QIDQ4523104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barry Brent

Publication date 7 January 2001

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0001085

zbMATH Keywords

entire modular formseven positive definite quadratic formsFourier expansionminima of quadratic forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We give upper bounds on the size of the gap between a non-zero constant term and the next non-zero Fourier coefficient of an entire level two modular form. We give upper bounds for the minimum positive integer represented by a level two even positive-definite quadratic form. These bounds extend partial results in part I.

Review text

Let \(M(2,h)\) denote the vector space of entire modular forms for weight \(h\) for \(\Gamma_0(2)\). Suppose \(f\in M(2,h)\) with Fourier expansion at infinity \(f(z)= \sum_{n=0}^\infty A_n q^n\), \(A_0\neq 0\). The main result of the paper is: \[ A_n\neq 0 \text{ for some \(n\) with }1\leq n\leq \bigl[ \tfrac {h}{4} \bigr]+1. \] For \(h\equiv 0\bmod 4\) this was already shown in Part I [Exp. Math. 7, 257-274 (1998; Zbl 0916.11025)]. This result is applied to an estimate of minima of level two even positive definite quadratic forms in \(v\) variables for \(v\equiv 4\bmod 8\); they represent a positive integer \(2n\leq 1+ \frac{v}{4}\).

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