English

Congruences for Level $1$ cusp forms of half-integral weight

Number Theory 2021-11-09 v2

Abstract

Suppose that 5\ell \geq 5 is prime. For a positive integer NN with 4N4 \mid N, previous works studied properties of half-integral weight modular forms on Γ0(N)\Gamma_0(N) which are supported on finitely many square classes modulo \ell, in some cases proving that these forms are congruent to the image of a single variable theta series under some number of iterations of the Ramanujan Θ\Theta-operator. Here, we study the analogous problem for modular forms of half-integral weight on SL2(Z)\operatorname{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z}). Let η\eta be the Dedekind eta function. For a wide range of weights, we prove that every half-integral weight modular form on SL2(Z)\operatorname{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z}) which is supported on finitely many square classes modulo \ell can be written modulo \ell in terms of η\eta^{\ell} and an iterated derivative of η\eta.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2012.10587,
  title  = {Congruences for Level $1$ cusp forms of half-integral weight},
  author = {Robert Dicks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.10587},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted to Proceedings of the AMS

R2 v1 2026-06-23T21:05:33.636Z