arXiv · 1401.6214
Almost every vector valued modular form is an oldform
Abstract
In this article we show that 'most' of the vector valued modular forms w.r.t. the Weil representation on the groups rings $\mathbb{C}[D]$ of discriminant forms D are oldforms. The precise meaning of oldform is that the form can be represented as a sum of lifts of vector valued modular forms on group rings of quotients $H^\bot/H$ for isotropic subgroups H of D. In this context, 'most' means that all forms are oldforms if there is a part $\mathbb{Z}/p^e \mathbb{Z}$ inside a p-part of D that is repeated several times (i.e. >= 4,5,7,9 depending on p and e). We will proceed by giving an oldform detection mechanism. This criterion also gives rise to an efficient algorithm for computing the decomposition of cusp forms into their spaces of old- and newforms when only given the Fourier coefficients of a basis of the space of cusp forms.
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Fabian Werner. 2014-01-27. Almost every vector valued modular form is an oldform. https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6214
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