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The circle method and non lacunarity of Modular Functions

Number Theory 2012-10-23 v1

Abstract

Serre proved that any holomorphic cusp form of weight one for Γ1(N)\Gamma_1(N) is lacunary while a holomorphic modular form for Γ1(N)\Gamma_1(N) of higher integer weight is lacunary if and only if it is a linear combination of cusp forms of CM-type (see Serre, subsections 7.6 and 7.7). In this paper, we show that when a non-zero modular function of arbitrary real weight for any finite index subgroup of the modular group \SL2(Z){\SL}_2(\Z) is lacunary, it is necessarily holomorphic on the upper-half plane, finite at the cusps and has non-negative weight.

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@article{arxiv.1210.5608,
  title  = {The circle method and non lacunarity of Modular Functions},
  author = {Sanoli Gun and Joseph Oesterlé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5608},
  year   = {2012}
}