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A Higher Weight Analogue of Ogg's Theorem on Weierstrass Points

Number Theory 2020-06-18 v1

Abstract

For a positive integer NN, we say that \infty is a Weierstrass point on the modular curve X0(N)X_0(N) if there is a non-zero cusp form of weight 22 on Γ0(N)\Gamma_0(N) which vanishes at \infty to order greater than the genus of X0(N)X_0(N). If pp is a prime with pNp \nmid N, Ogg proved that \infty is not a Weierstrass point on X0(pN)X_0(pN) if the genus of X0(N)X_0(N) is 00. We prove a similar result for even weights k4k \geq 4. We also study the space of weight kk cusp forms on Γ0(N)\Gamma_0(N) vanishing to order greater than the dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2006.09520,
  title  = {A Higher Weight Analogue of Ogg's Theorem on Weierstrass Points},
  author = {Robert Dicks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09520},
  year   = {2020}
}

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