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Langlands correspondence of coverings of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb R)$ and modular forms with fractional weights
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$Let $G \to \SL_2(\mathbb R)$ be a finite covering of degree $d \geq 2$. Then $G$ is a connected Lie group with semisimple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}_2$ and ...
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Whether or not the root number of GL$_3\times$GL$_2$ $L$-function $L(s, F \otimes g)$ contains the coefficients $\lambda_g(n)$ of $g$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$Let $p$ and $q$ be two distinct primes. Let $$\Gamma_0(p)= \left\{ g\in \GL_3(\mathbb{Z}):g \equiv \left(\begin{matrix} \ast &\ast&\...
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On the local factor of Rankin-Selberg L-functions
I have a puzzle on the local factors of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions. Consider two newforms on $\text{GL}_2$. Let $f$ be a newform of square-free level $N$, and $g$ a newform of trivial level. As ...
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Roadmap to Carayol-Deligne-Langlands
Having begun self-study of Fermat's Last Theorem a few years ago, I have only recently begun to understand and appreciate the theorem of Carayol-Deligne-Langlands on local-global compatibility for ...
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Depth of the filtration of higher ramification groups in the ramified case in Serre's modularity conjecture
I am studying Serre's paper "Sur les représentations modulaires de degré 2 de $\mathrm{Gal(\overline{\mathbb Q}/\mathbb Q)}$" and I have some questions about Serre's definition of "peu ...
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Symmetric power lift of modular forms
Let $f_1$ and $f_2$ be two cuspforms of weights $k_1$ and $k_2$ and nebentypus $\epsilon_1$ and $\epsilon_2$ respectively such that $f_1 \neq f_2 \otimes \chi$ for some Dirichlet character $\chi$ of ...
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Are umbral moonshine and umbral calculus connected?
In a 2013 article, Cheng, Duncan and Harvey introduce the concept of umbral moonshine as a generalization of monstrous moonshine. The terminology they use, starting with the title, is common in umbral ...
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Automorphic representation of GL(1)
These might be very silly questions, but somehow I am not able to understand it or I might have misunderstood something.
I am reading automorphic forms from this book.
What I have understood till now:
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Global irreducible admissible representations analogue
Let ${A}_{\mathbb{Q}}$ denote the adele over the rational numbers. Then it is known that cuspidal modular forms of level $N$ correspond to some unitary automorphic representation of $\operatorname{GL}...
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Kac-Peterson modular forms and shifted theta functions
Let $\Lambda$ be the root lattice corresponding to an ADE root system $R$ of rank $n$. With the ADE assumption, the weight lattice is simply the dual lattice $\Lambda^{\vee}$. Given any weight vector $...
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How to obtain the harmonic theta series via the global theta correspondence explicitly?
I am interested in the following kind of modular forms: let $(L,q)$ be an even unimodular lattice inside $V:=L\otimes \mathbb{Q}$, and $P$ is a harmonic homogeneous polynomial of degree $d$ on $\...
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Irreducibility of the $n$th symetric power of the reduction of the Galois representation of a non-CM newform
In "On $\ell$-adic representations attached to modular forms II", Ribet proved that the $\ell$-adic representation $\rho_{f,\ell}$ attached to a non-CM newform form $f$ satisfies
$${\rm SL}...
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Whether or not the Maass form for $\Gamma _0(N)$ on $GL(3)$ covers the classical symmetric lift of a newform on $GL(2)$?
I have a blur which needs some help from the experts here, and may look naive for some experts. Recently I read Zhou's paper "The Voronoi formula on $GL{(3)}$ with ramification" (https://...
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Values at 1 of symmetric power L-functions of Maass cusp forms
I have a blur that whether one has $L(1,\text{sym}^2f)\ll \log^A q$ for some $A>0$? Here $f$ is assumed to be a Maass cusp form of square-free level $q$. If any experts here know something about ...
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$\DeclareMathOperator\sym{sym}$Does $L(s, \sym^2 f \times \sym^2 g)$ have a pole at $s=1$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}\DeclareMathOperator\sym{sym}$I encountered a question on the poles of $\GL_3\times \GL_3$ $L$-function, which needs the knowledge of the experts ...
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How to relate Rankin triple L-function to its Dirichlet series
I have a very tricky question which may look naive to many experts here.
Let $f$ be a newform of level prime $P$, and $g,h$ two newforms of level 1, respectively. These three forms $f,g,h$ are all of ...
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Hurwitz numbers and $t$-cores
For integers $k \geq 0$ and $d \geq 1$ let $H(k,d)$
be the Hurwitz number which, for the purposes
of this posting, will be defined by:
\begin{equation}
H(k,d)
\, := \ d! \, \sum_{\lambda \, \vdash d}...
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Principal series representation of $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ restricted to principal congruence subgroup
Given a principal congruence subgroup $\Gamma(N)$ of $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$, since $\Gamma(N)$ is free, consider a probability distribution $\mu_1$ of a simple random walk on $\Gamma(N)$ and consider its ...
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Eigenvalues of spherical function on $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$
Lie algebraically, the eigenvalue of the spherical function
\begin{align*}
\phi_{\lambda}(g)=\int_{K} e^{(i \lambda+\rho)(A(k g))} \mathrm{d} k \quad (g \in G,\,\lambda\in\mathfrak{a}^*)
\end{align*}
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The cohomology of modular curves as a module over the Galois group
Consider the modular curve $\pi: X(N) \to X(1)$ where this map has Galois group $G = PSL_2(\mathbb Z/N\mathbb Z)$. In particular, $G$ acts on the singular cohomology $H^1(X(N),\mathbb Z)\otimes \...
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A question related to Hilbert modular form
This is a question related to Hilbert modular forms.
Let $\mathbb{K}=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt D)$ be an imaginary quadratic field with discriminant $D<0$ and $\zeta (\text{mod } m)$ a Hecke character such ...
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Surjectivity in Deligne-Serre
Let $f$ be a newform of weight $k$ and level $N$ with integer coefficients. Deligne-Serre theorem theorem says there exist a nice associated representation $\rho_{f}^{(\ell)}:\text{Gal}(\overline{\...
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Level vs. conductor of a supercuspidal representation
What is the relation between level and conductor of a supercuspidal representation of $\operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbb{Q}_p)$ for some prime $p$?
Proposition 3.4 in Loeffler and Weinstein - On the ...
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Paramodular forms with level and Iwahori subgroups?
Given an integer $N>0$, not necessarily prime, we have the paramodular group $K(N) \subset \text{Sp}_{4}(\mathbb{Q})$, which consists of matrices of the form
$$\begin{bmatrix} * & *N & * &...
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Analogous theorem for Hilbert modular forms
I have studied modular forms and saw a correspondence like a newform correspond to a automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{A_Q})$. Does any similar result holds for Hilbert modular ...
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Classical Hecke operators and Hecke algebra of type $A_1$
What's the relation between the classical Hecke operators (as defined in J. P. Serre's A course in arithmetic chapter 6) and the Hecke algebra of type $A_1$, i.e. the algebra generated by the vertices ...
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About different cohomology theories used to study Shimura varieties
The classical theory of Eichler-Shimura realizes the space of cusp forms of certain weights and levels in the parabolic cohomology of modular curves, which is the image of the cohomology with compact ...
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Hilbert modular form as a representation of Hecke algebra
I am reading some notes by Snowden and I don't understand a sentence.
Clearly, if we have an appropriate $R = T$
theorem then we get a modularity lifting theorem, as $\rho$ defines a homomorphism ...
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Automorphy Factor from Vector Bundles on Compact Dual
So I'm coming from an algebraic geometry perspective and I'm trying to carefully piece together the story of interpreting automorphic forms as sections of vector bundles on Shimura varieties. I think ...
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Classification of quasi-lisse vertex algebras
Quasi-lisse vertex algebras were introduced by Arakawa and Kawasetsu in Quasi-lisse vertex algebras and modular linear differential equations . They satisfy the property that the normalized character ...
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To what extent does the $(\mathfrak{g},K_{\infty})$ module determines the automorphic representation?
In this question, we will follow the notations and definitions from the book "Automorphic Representations and L-Functions for the General Linear Group" by Goldfeld and Hundley. For simplicity, let's ...
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Modular transformation of affine characters of non-simply connected groups$.$
Consider an (untwisted) affine algebra corresponding to a compact and simply-connected Lie group $G$. Under a modular transformation, its characters transform as (cf. 9612078)
$$
\chi_\mu\to\sum_{\nu\...
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Hecke algebra of GL(2,F)
I was studying about the Hecke algebra from Bernstein's notes on p-adic representation theory and various other sources. First a disclaimer: everything below is fairly new to me so please feel free to ...
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Maass-Saito-Kurokawa Lift of Weak Jacobi Forms
Given a holomorphic Jacobi form $\varphi_{k,1} \in \mathbb{J}_{k,1}$ of weight $k$ and index 1, we know we can use the Hecke operators $V_{m}$ to lift $\varphi_{k,1}$ to a Siegel modular form
$$\...
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eigen forms of integer weights and multiplicative functions
Let $f=\sum a(n)q^n$ a modular cuspidal form of integer weight on some congruece subgroup. Suppose that $a(1)=1$ and that $f$ is proper to Hecke operators. Its is known that the coefficients $a(n)$ ...
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Root number of the Rankin-Selberg convolution of two newforms
Let $p$ and $q$ be two distinct primes. Let $f\in \mathcal{S}_k^{\ast}(pq,\psi)$ be a holomorphic newform of level $pq$, nebentypus $\psi$, and weight $k$, where $\psi = \chi_p \chi_{0(q)}$, with $\...
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Representations of $\mathbb{H}^{\times}$ and $\mathbb{H}^{\times}/\mathbb{R}^{\times}$
In an attempt to recapture Eichler's theta correspondence I have hit a stumbling block.
Let $D$ be a quaternion algebra over $\mathbb{Q}$, ramified at $p,\infty$. Also let $V_j = \text{Symm}^j(\...
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On a claim of Zagier on extending a map to cocycle
Zagier, in his paper 'Some Surprising Consequences of the Cohomology of SL$_2(\bf{ Z})$' (link, p. 6), studies the action of $\Gamma=PSL_2(\bf Z)$ on a vector space $V$, denoting the action by $v\ |\ \...
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Characterizing the real analytic Eisenstein series
Consider the classical real analytic Eisenstein series
$$
E(z,s)=\left(\pi^{-s}\Gamma(s)\frac{1}{2}\right)\sum_{(m,n)\neq(0,0)}\frac{y^s}{|mz+n|^{2s}},
$$
where $z=x+iy$. We think of $E(z,s)$ as a ...
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Etymology of cuspidal representations
In the literature on representation theory of $GL_2(\Bbb F_p)$ and $GL_2(\Bbb Q_p)$, the irreducible representations with trivial Jacquet module are often called "cuspidal" or "supercuspidal". Why are ...
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Representation-theoretic operations on modular forms
Let $A$ and $B$ be Hecke eigenforms of some weight $k$ and level $N$. We know that there are irreducible representations $\rho_a$, $\rho_b$ of the absolute Galois group of $\mathbb{Q}$ whose trace of ...
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Modular Forms w.r.t. different representations linearly independent?
Let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $G = \text{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$, say, and $\rho : G \to \text{GL}_\mathbb{C}(V)$ a representation. Let us take a fixed basis $b_1, ...,...
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Conceptual reason behind Shimura lifts
Shimura lifts are correspondence between integer weight and half-integral weight automorphic forms. Half integral weight things are associated to representation of a double cover of $G =SL_2(\mathbb{R}...
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Is SL(2,C)/SL(2,Z) a quasi-projective variety?
Consider the complex 3-fold $SL(2,\mathbb C)/SL(2,\mathbb Z)$ (just for clarity: note that $SL(2,\mathbb Z)$ acts without stabilizers, so this is a complex manifold, not a complex orbifold).
Is $SL(...
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Why is this vector space related to modular forms?
In the course of doing some calculations on a project I am working on, I came across the following presentation of a vector space. It is generated by homogenous polynomials of even degree $n$ over a ...
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Are there Maass forms where the expected Galois representation is $\ell$-adic?
Recall that by theorems of Deligne and Deligne--Serre, there is the following dichotomy:
Modular forms on the upper half plane of level $N$ and weight $k\geq 2$ correspond to representations $\rho:\...
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Subgroups of GL(2,q)
I have been wondering about something for a while now, and the simplest incarnation of it is the following question:
Find a finite group that is not a subgroup of any $GL_2(q)$.
Here, $GL_2(q)$ is ...
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What is known about the connection of positive energy representations of loop groups and modular forms
At the end of Section 14.1 in Pressley, Segal "Loop Groups" there is the remark that
the partition function is a modular function in the sense that the Dedekind $\eta$ function is a modular form. I ...
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I'm looking for a Virasoro-module whose character is 1+ 240q+ 2160q^2+ 6720q^3...
Let $E_4(q)=1+ 240q+ 2160q^2+ 6720q^3+\ldots $ be the Eisenstein series of weight 4,
also known as the theta-series of the $E_8$-lattice.
I'm looking for a $\mathbb N$-graded vector space $V$ of ...
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Getting certain modular functions from characters
It is well known that characters of affine Lie algebras have
certain modular properties. For instance, the linear span of all
irreducible characters at a given level must be invariant under a
certain ...
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