Toroidal automorphic forms for some function fields

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Abstract: Zagier introduced toroidal automorphic forms to study the zeros of zeta functions: an automorphic form on GL_2 is toroidal if all its right translates integrate to zero over all nonsplit tori in GL_2, and an Eisenstein series is toroidal if its weight is a zero of the zeta function of the corresponding field. We compute the space of such forms for the global function fields of class number one and genus g zero or one, and with a rational place. The space has dimension g and is spanned by the expected Eisenstein series. We deduce an "automorphic" proof for the Riemann hypothesis for the zeta function of those curves.


If \(F\) denotes the function field of some smooth projective curve \(X\) over a finite field, and \(F\) is not rational, has class number 1, has a rational place and genus greater than or equal to 1, then by the Hasse-Weil theorem \(X\) is necessarily one of three elliptic curves which can be given explicitly. For such function fields, the authors compute the spaces \(T_F\) of automorphic forms on \(\mathrm{GL}_2\) with the property that all right translates integrate to zero over all non-split tori in \(\mathrm{GL}_2\) -- i.e., the ``toroidal automorphic forms of the title. In each case, the spaces \(T_F\) are one-dimensional, spanned by Eisenstein series of weight equal to a zero of the zeta function of \(F\). In proving this, the authors establish various facts which they use to give a new proof of the Riemann hypothesis for these function fields.











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