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On automorphic forms of small weight for fake projective planes

Algebraic Geometry 2023-03-14 v3

Abstract

On the projective plane there is a unique cubic root of the canonical bundle and this root is acyclic. On fake projective planes such root exists and is unique if there are no 3-torsion divisors (and usually exists, but not unique, otherwise). Earlier we conjectured that any such cubic root must be acyclic. In the present note we give two short proofs of this statement and show acyclicity of some other line bundles on the fake projective planes with at least 99 automorphisms. Similarly to our earlier work we employ simple representation theory for non-abelian finite groups. The first proof is based on the observation that if some line bundle is non-linearizable with respect to a finite abelian group, then it should be linearized by a finite, \emph{non-abelian}, Heisenberg group. For the second proof, we also demonstrate vanishing of odd Betti numbers for a class of abelian covers, and use linearization of an auxiliary line bundle as well.

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@article{arxiv.1602.06107,
  title  = {On automorphic forms of small weight for fake projective planes},
  author = {Sergey Galkin and Ilya Karzhemanov and Evgeny Shinder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06107},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

14 pages; the title has been changed and the text revised following the referee's suggestions