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Dimensions of the Spaces of Cusp Forms and Newforms on Gamma_0(N) and Gamma_1(N)

Greg Martin
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A formula for the dimension of the space of cuspidal modular forms on $Γ_0(N)$ of weight $k$ ($k\ge2$ even) has been known for several decades. More recent but still well-known is the Atkin-Lehner decomposition of this space of cusp forms into subspaces corresponding to newforms on $Γ_0(d)$ of weight $k$, as $d$ runs over the divisors of $N$. A recursive algorithm for computing the dimensions of these spaces of newforms follows from the combination of these two results, but it would be desirable to have a formula in closed form for these dimensions. In this paper we establish such a closed-form formula, not only for these dimensions, but also for the corresponding dimensions of spaces of newforms on $Γ_1(N)$ of weight $k$ ($k\ge2$). This formula is much more amenable to analysis and to computation. For example, we derive asymptotically sharp upper and lower bounds for these dimensions, and we compute their average orders; even for the dimensions of spaces of cusp forms, these results are new. We also establish sharp inequalities for the special case of weight-2 newforms on $Γ_0(N)$, and we report on extensive computations of these dimensions: we find the complete list of all $N$ such that the dimension of the space of weight-2 newforms on $Γ_0(N)$ is less than or equal to 100 (previous such results had only gone up to dimension 3).

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Greg Martin. 2003-06-06. Dimensions of the Spaces of Cusp Forms and Newforms on Gamma_0(N) and Gamma_1(N). https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306128

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