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Sign changes of coefficients of half integral weight modular forms

Number Theory 2007-09-14 v1

Abstract

For a half integral weight modular form ff we study the signs of the Fourier coefficients a(n)a(n). If ff is a Hecke eigenform of level N N with real Nebentypus character, and tt is a fixed square-free positive integer with a(t)0a(t)\neq 0, we show that for all but finitely many primes pp the sequence (a(tp2m))m(a(tp^{2m}))_{m} has infinitely many signs changes. Moreover, we prove similar (partly conditional) results for arbitrary cusp forms ff which are not necessarily Hecke eigenforms.

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@article{arxiv.0709.2001,
  title  = {Sign changes of coefficients of half integral weight modular forms},
  author = {Jan Hendrik Bruinier and Winfried Kohnen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2001},
  year   = {2007}
}
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