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Claudia Alfes

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arXiv2026

Beyond Mock Modularity: Elliptic Corrections for Higher Dyson Ranks

When $m = 1$, the Dyson rank generating function is a classical bridge between partition theory, Ramanujan's mock theta functions, and the theory of harmonic Maass forms and nonholomorphic Jacobi forms. The rank is a statistic on partitions, and the higher Dyson systems, for $m \geq 2$, are a natural multivariable refinement of it, combining $m$ graded rank contributions. Unlike the classical case, these higher systems are not expected to fit the mock-modular framework, which raises the question of what analytic structure governs them. We show that their root-of-unity specializations carry a hidden elliptic structure. A finite $q$-difference recurrence produces an explicit polynomial obstruction to the expected index $m$ elliptic transformation law, and because the obstruction is finite, its partial fractions canonically determine finitely many Appell--Lerch correction terms that remove it. The corrected functions satisfy a twisted index $m$ elliptic law; a natural translation removes the twist, and their holomorphic finite parts admit finite theta decompositions. Thus, the natural analogue of Dyson's mock-modular phenomenon at higher $m$ is not mock modularity but a finite theta decomposition governed by an index $m$ elliptic transformation law. These results grew out of a human--AI collaboration, and the key new formulas were formalized and machine-verified in Lean/Mathlib by AxiomProver.

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arXiv2026

Magnetic orthogonal modular forms

In this note we show that certain meromorphic orthogonal modular forms are magnetic, i.e.\ their Fourier coefficients satisfy special divisibility criteria. These meromorphic orthogonal modular forms are counterparts to the orthogonal cusp forms considered by Oda. We show that the seminal of work of Borcherds implies the magneticity of these forms.

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arXiv2025

Symplectic Hecke eigenbases from Ehrhart polynomials

For $n\in\mathbb{N}$ and $\ell\in\{0,1,\dots,n\}$, we consider the function extracting the $\ell$th coefficient of the Ehrhart polynomials of lattice polytopes in $\mathbb{R}^n$. These functions form a basis of the space of unimodular invariant valuations. We show that, in even dimensions, these functions are in fact simultaneous symplectic Hecke eigenfunctions. We leverage this and apply the theory of spherical functions and their associated zeta functions to prove analytic, asymptotic, and combinatorial results about the arithmetic functions averaging $\ell$th Ehrhart coefficients.

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arXiv2024

Cycle integrals of meromorphic Hilbert modular forms

We establish a rationality result for linear combinations of traces of cycle integrals of certain meromorphic Hilbert modular forms. These are meromorphic counterparts to the Hilbert cusp forms $ω_m(z_1,z_2)$, which Zagier investigated in the context of the Doi-Naganuma lift. We give an explicit formula for these cycle integrals, expressed in terms of the Fourier coefficients of harmonic Maass forms. A key element in our proof is the explicit construction of locally harmonic Hilbert-Maass forms on $\mathbb{H}^2$, which are analogous to the elliptic locally harmonic Maass forms examined by Bringmann, Kane, and Kohnen. Additionally, we introduce a regularized theta lift that maps elliptic harmonic Maass forms to locally harmonic Hilbert-Maass forms and is closely related to the Doi-Naganuma lift.

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arXiv2024

Measures, modular forms, and summation formulas of Poisson type

In this article, we show that Fourier eigenmeasures supported on spheres with radii given by a locally finite sequence, which we call $k$-spherical measures, correspond to Fourier series exhibiting a modular-type transformation behaviour with respect to the metaplectic group. A familiar subset of such Fourier series comprises holomorphic modular forms. This allows us to construct $k$-spherical eigenmeasures and derive Poisson-type summation formulas, thereby recovering formulas of a similar nature established by Cohn-Gonçalves, Lev-Reti, and Meyer, among others. Additionally, we extend our results to higher dimensions, where Hilbert modular forms yield higher-dimensional $k$-spherical measures.

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arXiv2024

Ehrhart polynomials, Hecke series, and affine buildings

Given a lattice polytope $P$ and a prime $p$, we define a function from the set of primitive symplectic $p$-adic lattices to the rationals that extracts the $\ell$th coefficient of the Ehrhart polynomial of $P$ relative to the given lattice. Inspired by work of Gunnells and Rodriguez-Villegas in type $\mathsf{A}$, we show that these functions are eigenfunctions of a suitably defined action of the spherical symplectic Hecke algebra. Although they depend significantly on the polytope $P$, their eigenvalues are independent of $P$ and expressed as polynomials in $p$. We define local zeta functions that enumerate the values of these Hecke eigenfunctions on the vertices of the affine Bruhat--Tits buildings associated with $p$-adic symplectic groups. We compute these zeta functions by enumerating $p$-adic lattices by their elementary divisors and, simultaneously, one Hermite parameter. We report on a general functional equation satisfied by these local zeta functions, confirming a conjecture of Vankov.

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arXiv2015

Weierstrass mock modular forms and elliptic curves

Mock modular forms, which give the theoretical framework for Ramanujan's enigmatic mock theta functions, play many roles in mathematics. We study their role in the context of modular parameterizations of elliptic curves $E/\mathbb{Q}$. We show that mock modular forms which arise from Weierstrass $ζ$-functions encode the central $L$-values and $L$-derivatives which occur in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. By defining a theta lift using a kernel recently studied by Hövel, we obtain canonical weight 1/2 harmonic Maass forms whose Fourier coefficients encode the vanishing of these values for the quadratic twists of $E$. We employ results of Bruinier and the third author, which builds on seminal work of Gross, Kohnen, Shimura, Waldspurger, and Zagier. We also obtain $p$-adic formulas for the corresponding weight 2 newform using the action of the Hecke algebra on the Weierstrass mock modular form.

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arXiv2013

Twisted Traces of CM values of Harmonic Weak Maass Forms

We show that the twisted traces of CM values of weak Maass forms of weight 0 are Fourier coefficients of vector valued weak Maass forms of weight 3/2. These results generalize work by Zagier on traces of singular moduli. We utilize a twisted version of the theta lift considered by Bruinier and Funke.

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arXiv2012

Formulas for the coefficients of half-integral weight harmonic Maass forms

Recently, Bruinier and Ono proved that the coefficients of certain weight -1/2 harmonic weak Maaß forms are given as "traces" of singular moduli for harmonic weak Maaß forms. Here, we prove that similar results hold for the coefficients of harmonic weak Maaß forms of weight $3/2+k$, $k$ even, and weight $1/2-k$, $k$ odd, by extending the theta lift of Bruinier-Funke and Bruinier-Ono. Moreover, we generalize their result to include \textit{twisted} traces of singular moduli using earlier work of the author and Ehlen. Employing a duality result between weight $k$ and $2-k$, we are able to cover all half-integral weights. We also show that the non-holomorphic part of the theta lift in weight $1/2-k$, $k$ odd, is connected to the vanishing of the special value of the $L$-function of a certain derivative of the lifted function.

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arXiv2012

The Mock Modular Data of a Family of Superalgebras

The modular properties of characters of representations of a family of W-superalgebras extending the affine Lie superalgebra of gl(1|1) are considered. Modules fall into two classes, the generic type and the non-generic one. Characters of non-generic modules are expressed in terms of higher-level Appell-Lerch sums. We compute the modular transformations of characters and interpret the Mordell integral as an integral over characters of generic representations. The \C-span of a finite number of non-generic characters together with an uncountable set of characters of the generic type combine into a representation of SL(2;\Z). The modular transformations are then used to define a product on the space of characters. The fusion rules of the extended algebras are partially inherited from the known fusion rules for modules of the affine Lie superalgebra of gl(1|1). Moreover, the product obtained from the modular transformations coincides with the product of the Grothendieck ring of characters if and only if the fusion multiplicities are at most one.

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