congruences for Fourier coefficients of modular forms - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net2013-05-22T20:17:23Zhttp://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/103282http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdfhttp://mathoverflow.net/questions/103282/congruences-for-fourier-coefficients-of-modular-formscongruences for Fourier coefficients of modular formsTimo Keller2012-07-27T08:27:31Z2012-07-27T19:49:36Z
<p>Are there other good articles on congruences for Fourier coefficients of modular forms beside Swinnerton-Dyer's article in "Modular Functions of One Variable III"?</p>
<p>I am looking for generalisations and <em>other explicit cases</em> than the Ramanujan $\tau$-function and the $5$ other modular forms in [Swinnerton-Dyer].</p>
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/103282/congruences-for-fourier-coefficients-of-modular-forms/103290#103290Answer by PaPiro for congruences for Fourier coefficients of modular formsPaPiro2012-07-27T10:08:24Z2012-07-27T10:08:24Z<p>What about K. Ono, <a href="http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~ono/publications-cv/pdfs/002.pdf" rel="nofollow">Congruences on the Fourier coefficients of modular forms on $\Gamma_0(n)$</a>, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 166, 93-105, 1994.</p>
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/103282/congruences-for-fourier-coefficients-of-modular-forms/103314#103314Answer by Joël for congruences for Fourier coefficients of modular formsJoël 2012-07-27T14:33:47Z2012-07-27T14:45:07Z<p>I understand and share quid's bewilderment. There are easily more than 5000 articles
whose main theme can be considered, without stretching too much, as "congruencies between Fourier coefficients of modular forms - and generalizations", including some of the most famous of the last four decades, like the one proving Fermat's last theorem.</p>
<p>The theory of congruences between modular forms has blossomed in many directions.
You may want to look at work of Serre, Katz, Hida, Mazur, Ribet, Wiles (and others) in the 70's and 80's for the beginning of the story.</p>
<p>Edit: There are so many directions of generalizations that it's hard to decide where to begin with. Swinnerton-Dyer works with congruences between two modular forms of the same level and the same weights. Those congruences are in some sense "accidental". Several papers by Hida
(like this one "congruences between cusp forms and special values of their Zeta functions")
hace generalized this line of thought. Besides, one can consider congruences between forms
of the same level and various weights -- and you get the theory of p-adic modular forms, Hida
families, eigencurve, etc. Or congruences between forms of the same weights and different
level -- you get to the level-raising and level-lowering result of Ribet's and other.
Ribet's ICM talk is a good introduction to this. Then you get all the generalization to other automorphic forms... </p>
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/103282/congruences-for-fourier-coefficients-of-modular-forms/103342#103342Answer by Jon Bannon for congruences for Fourier coefficients of modular formsJon Bannon2012-07-27T19:49:36Z2012-07-27T19:49:36Z<p>Also, have a look at Ken Ono's <a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Web_of_Modularity.html?id=MLdRYIg6pDkC" rel="nofollow">The Web of Modularity:
Arithmetic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and Q-Series</a>. This book is full of what you are looking for. </p>