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Publications and source records attributed to Rainer Schulze-Pillot.
For a paramodular group of any degree and square free level we study the Hecke algebra and the boundary components. We define paramodular theta series and show that for square free level and large enough weight they generate the space of cusp forms (basis problem), using the doubling and pullback of Eisenstein series method. For this we give a new geometric proof of Garrett's double coset decomposition which works in our more general situation.
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We give a short and purely bilinear proof of the fact that two chains of $p$-elementary lattices with quadratic form or alternating bilinear form over the $p$-adic integers ore more generally over a complete discrete valuation ring have common hyperbolic bases. This fact, which is useful for the study of Bruhat-Tits buildings, has been proven before with different methods by Abramenko and Nebe and by Frisch.
We give a simple quaternionic proof of a recent result of Goldmakher and Pollack on restricted sums of four integral squares.
We prove a bound for the Fourier coefficients of a cusp form of integral weight which is not a newform by computing an explicit orthogonal basis for the space of cusp forms of given integral weight and level. In contrast to previous work on special cases of this problem we use elementary methods for the computation of Petersson products and avoid using the Rankin $L$-function.
We investigate the relation between Klingen's decomposition of the space of Siegel modular forms and Dulinski's analogous decomposition of the space of Jacobi forms.
Let $-d$ be a a negative discriminant and let $T$ vary over a set of representatives of the integral equivalence classes of integral binary quadratic forms of discriminant $-d$. We prove an asymptotic formula for $d \to \infty$ for the average over $T$ of the number of representations of $T$ by an integral positive definite quaternary quadratic form and obtain results on averages of Fourier coefficients of linear combinations of Siegel theta series. We also find an asymptotic bound from below on the number of binary forms of fixed discriminant $-d$ which are represented by a given quaternary form. In particular, we can show that for growing $d$ a positive proportion of the binary quadratic forms of discriminant $-d$ is represented by the given quaternary quadratic form.
We discuss an arithmetic approach to some congruence properties of Siegel theta series of even positive definite unimodular quadratic forms.
In an article in the Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly in 2008, Duke and Jenkins investigated a certain natural basis of the space of weakly holomorphic modular forms for the full modular group $SL_2({\bf Z})$. We show here that their results can be generalized to certain moonshine groups, also allowing characters that are real on the underlying subgroup $Γ_0(N)$.
Let $f$ and $g$, of weights $k'>k\geq 2$, be normalised newforms for $Γ_0(N)$, for square-free $N>1$, such that, for each Atkin-Lehner involution, the eigenvalues of $f$ and $g$ are equal. Let $λ\mid\ell$ be a large prime divisor of the algebraic part of the near-central critical value $L(f\otimes g,\frac{k+k'-2}{2})$. Under certain hypotheses, we prove that $λ$ is the modulus of a congruence between the Hecke eigenvalues of a genus-two Yoshida lift of (Jacquet-Langlands correspondents of) $f$ and $g$ (vector-valued in general), and a non-endoscopic genus-two cusp form. In pursuit of this we also give a precise pullback formula for a genus-four Eisenstein series, and a general formula for the Petersson norm of a Yoshida lift. Given such a congruence, using the 4-dimensional $λ$-adic Galois representation attached to a genus-two cusp form, we produce, in an appropriate Selmer group, an element of order $λ$, as required by the Bloch-Kato conjecture on values of $L$-functions.
We show that the theorem of Ellenberg and Venkatesh on representation of integral quadratic forms by integral positive definite quadratic forms is valid under weaker conditions on the represented form.
We use results on the local theta correspondence to prove that for large degrees the Duke-Imamoglu-Ikeda lifting of an elliptic modular form is not a linear combination of theta series.
Following the work of Harris and Kudla we prove a more general form of a conjecture of Jacquet relating the non-vanishing of a certain period integral to non-vanishing of the central critical value of a certain $L$-function. As a consequence we deduce certain local results about the existence of $GL_2(k)$-invariant linear forms on irreducible, admissible representations of $GL_2({\Bbb K})$ for ${\Bbb K}$ a commutative semi-simple cubic algebra over a non-archimedean local field $k$ in terms of certain local epsilon factors which were proved only in certain cases by the first author in his earlier work. This has been achieved by globalising a locally distinguished representation to a globally distinguished representation, a result of independent interest.
We derive explicit formulas for the action of the Hecke operator $T(p)$ on the genus theta series of a positive definite integral quadratic form and prove a theorem on the generation of spaces of Eisenstein series by genus theta series. We also discuss connections of our results with Kudla's matching principle for theta integrals.
Motivated by problems of mathematical physics (quantum chaos) questions of equidistribution of eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on a Riemannian manifold have been studied by several authors. We consider here, in analogy with arithmetic hyperbolic surfaces, orthonormal bases of eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on the two dimensional unit sphere which are also eigenfunctions of an algebra of Hecke operators which act on these spherical harmonics. We formulate an analogue of the equidistribution of mass conjecture for these eigenfunctions as well as of the conjecture that their moments tend to moments of the Gaussian as the eigenvalue increases. For such orthonormal bases we show that these conjectures are related to the analytic properties of degree eight arithmetic L-functions associated to triples of eigenfunctions. Moreover we establish the conjecture for the third moments and give a conditional (on standard analytic conjectures about these arithmetic L-functions) proof of the equdistribution of mass conjecture.
We restrict a Siegel modular cusp form of degree 2 and square free level that is a Yoshida lifting (a lifting from the orthogonal group of a definite quaternion algebra) to the embedded product of two half planes and compute the Petersson product against the product of two elliptic cuspidal Hecke eigenforms. The square of this integral can be explicitly expressed in terms of the central critical value of an L-function attached to the situation. The result is related to a conjecture of Gross and Prasad about restrictions of automorphic representations of special orthogonal groups.
We continue our study of Yoshida's lifting, which associates to a pair of automorphic forms on the adelic multiplicative group of a quaternion algebra a Siegel modular form of degree 2. We consider here the case that the automorphic forms on the quaternion algebra correspond to modular forms of arbitrary even weights and square free levels; in particular we obtain a construction of Siegel modular forms of weight 3 attached to a pair of elliptic modular forms of weights 2 and 4.
We compute the central critical value of the triple product $L$-function associated to three cusp forms $f_1,f_2,f_3$ with trivial character for groups $Γ_0(N_i)$ with square free levels $N_i$ not all of which are $1$ and weights $k_i$ satisfying $k_1\ge k_2\ge k_3$ and $k_1<k_2+k_3$. This generalizes work of Gross and Kudla and gives an alternative classical proof of their results in the case $N_1=N_2=N_3$ with $k_1=k_2=k_3=2$.