English

Bianchi Modular Forms over Imaginary Quadratic Fields with arbitrary class group

Number Theory 2026-02-03 v2

Abstract

Let KK be an imaginary quadratic field and let OK\mathcal{O}_K be its ring of integers. For an integral ideal n\mathfrak{n} of OK\mathcal{O}_K, let Γ0(n)\Gamma_0({\mathfrak{n}}) be the congruence subgroup of level n{\mathfrak{n}} consisting of matrices in GL2OK\operatorname{GL}_2{\mathcal{O}_K} that are upper triangular mod n{\mathfrak{n}}. In this paper, we discuss techniques to compute the space of Bianchi modular forms of level Γ0(n)\Gamma_0({\mathfrak{n}}) as a Hecke module in the case where KK has arbitrary class group. Our algorithms and computations extend and complement those carried out for fields of class number 11, 22, and 33 by the first author, and by his students Bygott and Lingham in unpublished theses. We give details and several examples for K=Q(17)K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-17}), whose class group is cyclic of order 44, including a proof of modularity of an elliptic curve over this field. We also give an overview of the results obtained for a wide range of imaginary quadratic fields, which are tabulated in the L-functions and modular forms database (\href{https://www.lmfdb.org/}{LMFDB}).

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2502.00141,
  title  = {Bianchi Modular Forms over Imaginary Quadratic Fields with arbitrary class group},
  author = {John Cremona and Kalani Thalagoda and Dan Yasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00141},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

31 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T21:28:32.695Z