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Rationality of quaternionic Eisenstein series on $\mathrm{U}(2,n)$

Number Theory 2026-01-30 v1

Abstract

Let G=U(2,n)\mathbf{G}=\mathrm{U}(2,n) be the unitary group associated to a Hermitian space over a quadratic imaginary number field EE. We assume that 2 is unramified in EE, and the Hermitian space splits at all finite places and has signature (2,n)(2,n), where n2mod4n\equiv 2 \operatorname{mod} 4. A theory of Fourier expansions of quaternionic modular forms on G\mathbf{G} is developed by Hilado, McGlade, and Yan. In this paper, we define a family of degenerate Heisenberg Eisenstein series EE_{\ell} for >n\ell>n on G\mathbf{G}, which is a weight \ell quaternionic modular form, and we explicitly compute their Fourier expansions. We prove that the Fourier coefficients of EE_{\ell} are rational in a certain sense, and that their denominators are uniformly bounded by an integer depending only on ,n\ell,n, and EE. This provides the first family of quaternionic Eisenstein series whose Fourier coefficients are known to be rational or algebraic.

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@article{arxiv.2601.21223,
  title  = {Rationality of quaternionic Eisenstein series on $\mathrm{U}(2,n)$},
  author = {Henry H. Kim and Yi Shan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.21223},
  year   = {2026}
}

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41 pages, in English

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