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Evaluating Igusa functions

Number Theory 2011-01-24 v2

Abstract

The moduli space of principally polarized abelian surfaces is parametrized by three Igusa functions. In this article we investigate a new way to evaluate these functions by using Siegel Eisenstein series. We explain how to compute the Fourier coefficients of certain Siegel modular forms using classical modular forms of half-integral weight. One of the results in this paper is an explicit algorithm to evaluate the Igusa functions to a prescribed precision.

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@article{arxiv.1005.1234,
  title  = {Evaluating Igusa functions},
  author = {Reinier Broker and Kristin Lauter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.1234},
  year   = {2011}
}
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