Modular forms for \(\mathrm{GL}(r, \mathbb{F}_{q}[T])\): Hecke operators and growth of expansion coefficients

Abstract

We determine the action of the Hecke operators \(T_{\mathfrak{p},i}\) on the coefficient forms \(g_{1}, \dots, g_{r-1}, g_{r} = \Delta\), and \(h\), which together generate the ring of modular forms for \(\mathrm{GL}(r, \mathbf{F}_{q}[T])\). All these are eigenforms with powers of \(\pi\) as eigenvalues, where \(\pi\) is the monic generator of the prime ideal \(\mathfrak{p}\) of \(\mathbb{F}_{q}[T]\). We further describe the growth of the \(t\)-expansion coefficients of the discriminant function \(\Delta\). It is such that the product expansion of \(\Delta\) as well as the \(t\)-expansion of each modular form converges on the natural fundamental domain for \(\mathrm{GL}(r, \mathbf{F}_{q}[T])\).