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Distinguishing Hecke eigenforms

Number Theory 2010-04-28 v1

Abstract

We revisit a theorem of Ram Murty about the number of initial Fourier coefficients that two cuspidal eigenforms of different weights can have in common. We prove an explicit upper bound on this number, and give better conditional and unconditional asymptotic upper bounds. Finally, we describe a numerical experiment testing the sharpness of the upper bound in the case of forms of level one.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4705,
  title  = {Distinguishing Hecke eigenforms},
  author = {Alexandru Ghitza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4705},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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