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Scalar-valued depth two Eichler-Shimura Integrals of Cusp Forms

Number Theory 2023-11-28 v2

Abstract

Given cusp forms ff and gg of integral weight k2k \geq 2, the depth two holomorphic iterated Eichler-Shimura integral If,gI_{f,g} is defined by τif(z)(Xz)k2Ig(z;Y)dz{\int_\tau^{i\infty}f(z)(X-z)^{k-2}I_g(z;Y)\mathrm{d}z}, where IgI_g is the Eichler integral of gg and X,YX,Y are formal variables. We provide an explicit vector-valued modular form whose top components are given by If,gI_{f,g}. We show that this vector-valued modular form gives rise to a scalar-valued iterated Eichler integral of depth two, denoted by Ef,g\mathcal{E}_{f,g}, that can be seen as a higher-depth generalization of the scalar-valued Eichler integral Ef\mathcal{E}_f of depth one. As an aside, our argument provides an alternative explanation of an orthogonality relation satisfied by period polynomials originally due to Pa\c{s}ol-Popa. We show that Ef,g\mathcal{E}_{f,g} can be expressed in terms of sums of products of components of vector-valued Eisenstein series with classical modular forms after multiplication with a suitable power of the discriminant modular form Δ\Delta. This allows for effective computation of Ef,g\mathcal{E}_{f,g}.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00488,
  title  = {Scalar-valued depth two Eichler-Shimura Integrals of Cusp Forms},
  author = {Tobias Magnusson and Martin Raum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00488},
  year   = {2023}
}
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