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Congruence properties of Taylor coefficients of modular forms

Number Theory 2014-06-12 v1

Abstract

In their work, Serre and Swinnerton-Dyer study the congruence properties of the Fourier coefficients of modular forms. We examine similar congruence properties, but for the coefficients of a modified Taylor expansion about a CM point τ\tau. These coefficients can be shown to be the product of a power of a constant transcendental factor and an algebraic integer. In our work, we give conditions on τ\tau and a prime number pp that, if satisfied, imply that pmp^m divides the algebraic part of all the Taylor coefficients of ff of sufficiently high degree. We also give effective bounds on the largest nn such that pmp^m does not divide the algebraic part of the nthn^{\text{th}} Taylor coefficient of ff at τ\tau that are sharp under certain additional hypotheses.

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@article{arxiv.1406.2999,
  title  = {Congruence properties of Taylor coefficients of modular forms},
  author = {Hannah Larson and Geoffrey Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.2999},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages, to appear in Int. J. Number Theory