Critical points of modular forms
Number Theory
2024-07-16 v2
Abstract
We count the number of critical points of a modular form with real Fourier coefficients in a -translate of the standard fundamental domain (with ). Whereas by the valence formula the (weighted) number of zeros of this modular form in is a constant only depending on its weight, we give a closed formula for this number of critical points in terms of those zeros of the modular form lying on the boundary of the value of and the weight. More generally, we indicate what can be said about the number of zeros of a quasimodular form.
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@article{arxiv.2204.00432,
title = {Critical points of modular forms},
author = {Jan-Willem van Ittersum and Berend Ringeling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00432},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
27 pages; final version with minor changes