ALGEBRAIC FORMULAS FOR THE COEFFICIENTS OF HALF-INTEGRAL WEIGHT HARMONIC WEAK MAASS FORMS
JAN HENDRIK BRUINIER AND KEN ONO
Abstract. We prove that the coefficients of certain weight −1/2 harmonic Maass forms are “traces” of singular moduli for weak Maass forms. To prove this theorem, we construct a theta lift from spaces of weight −2 harmonic weak Maass forms to spaces of weight −1/2 vector- valued harmonic weak Maass forms on Mp2(Z), a result which is of independent interest. We then prove a general theorem which guarantees (with bounded denominator) when such Maass singular moduli are algebraic. As an example of these results, we derive a formula for the partition function p(n) as a finite sum of algebraic numbers which lie in the usual discriminant −24n + 1 ring class field. We indicate how these results extend to general weights. In particular, we illustrate how one can compute theta lifts for general weights by making use of the Kudla-Millson kernel and Maass differential operators.
1. Introduction and statement of results A partition [2] of a positive integer n is any nonincreasing sequence of positive integers which sum to n. The partition function p(n), which counts the number of partitions of n, defines the rapidly increasing sequence of integers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, . . . , p(100) = 190569292, . . . , p(1000) = 24061467864032622473692149727991,....
In celebrated work [21], which gave birth to the “circle method”, Hardy and Ramanujan quantified this rate of growth. They proved the asymptotic formula: 1 √ p(n) ∼ √ · eπ 2n/3. 4n 3 Rademacher [31, 32] subsequently perfected this method to derive his famous “exact” formula ∞ √ − 3 X Ak(n) π 24n − 1 (1.1) p(n) = 2π(24n − 1) 4 · I 3 . k 2 6k k=1
Here I 3 (·) is a modified Bessel function of the first kind, and Ak(n) is a Kloosterman sum. 2 Remark. Values of p(n) can be obtained by rounding sufficiently accurate truncations of (1.1). Bounding the error between p(n) and such truncations is a well known difficult problem. Recent work by Folsom and Masri [17] gives the best known nontrivial bounds on this problem.
The authors thank the American Institute of Mathematics for their generous support. The first author thanks the support of DFG grant BR-2163/2-1, and the second author thanks the NSF, the Hilldale Founda- tion, the Manasse family, and the Candler Fund for their support. 1 2 JAN HENDRIK BRUINIER AND KEN ONO
We obtain a new formula for p(n). Answering Questions 1 and 2 of [6], we express p(n) as a finite sum of algebraic numbers. These numbers are singular moduli for a weak Maass form 1 ∞ 24 Q n 2πiz which we describe using Dedekind’s eta-function η(z) := q n=1(1 − q ) (note. q := e throughout) and the quasimodular Eisenstein series ∞ X X n (1.2) E2(z) := 1 − 24 dq . n=1 d|n
To this end, we define the Γ0(6) weight -2 meromorphic modular form F (z) by 1 E (z) − 2E (2z) − 3E (3z) + 6E (6z) (1.3) F (z) := · 2 2 2 2 = q−1 − 10 − 29q − .... 2 η(z)2η(2z)2η(3z)2η(6z)2 Using the convention that z = x + iy, with x, y ∈ R, we define the weak Maass form 1 d 1 1 5 29 (1.4) P (z) := − · + F (z) = 1 − q−1 + + 29 + q + .... 2πi dz 2πy 2πy πy 2πy This nonholomorphic form has weight 0, and is a weak Maass form (for more on weak Maass forms, see [8]). It has eigenvalue −2 with respect to the hyperbolic Laplacian ∂2 ∂2 ∆ := −y2 + . ∂x2 ∂y2 To describe our formula, we use discriminant −24n + 1 = b2 − 4ac positive definite integral binary quadratic forms Q(x, y) = ax2 + bxy + cy2 with the property that 6 | a. The group Γ0(6) acts on such forms, and we let Qn be any set of representatives of those equivalence classes with a > 0 and b ≡ 1 (mod 12). For each Q(x, y), we let αQ be the CM point in H, the upper half of the complex plane, for which Q(αQ, 1) = 0. We then define the “trace” X (1.5) Tr(n) := P (αQ).
Q∈Qn The following theorem gives the finite algebraic formula for p(n). Theorem 1.1. If n is a positive integer, then we have that 1 p(n) = · Tr(n). 24n − 1
The numbers P (αQ), as Q varies over Qn, form a multiset of algebraic numbers which is the union of Galois orbits for the discriminant −24n + 1 ring class field. Moreover, for each Q ∈ Qn we have that 6(24n − 1)P (αQ) is an algebraic integer. Theorem 1.1 gives an algorithm for computing p(n), as well as the polynomial
h(−24n+1) h(−24n+1)−1 Y (1.6) Hn(x) = x − (24n − 1)p(n)x + ··· := (x − P (αQ)) ∈ Q[x]. Q∈Qn
One simply computes sufficiently precise approximations of the singular moduli P (αQ). Remark. Using the theory of Poincar´eseries and identities and formulas for Kloosterman-type sums, one can use Theorem 1.1 to give a new (and longer) proof of the exact formula (1.1). ALGEBRAIC FORMULAS FOR THE COEFFICIENTS OF WEAK MAASS FORMS 3
Example. We give an amusing proof of the fact that p(1) = 1. In this case, we have that 24n − 1 = 23, and we use the Γ0(6)-representatives 2 2 2 2 2 2 Q1 = {Q1,Q2,Q3} = {6x + xy + y , 12x + 13xy + 4y , 18x + 25xy + 9y }. The corresponding CM points are 1 1 √ 13 1 √ 25 1 √ α := − + · −23, α := − + · −23, α := − + · −23. Q1 12 12 Q2 24 24 Q3 36 36
Using the explicit Fourier expansion of P (z), we find that P (αQ3 ) = P (αQ2 ), and that
P (αQ1 ) ∼ 13.965486281 and P (αQ2 ) ∼ 4.517256859 − 3.097890591i. By means of these numerics we can prove that 3 Y 3592 H (x) := (x − P (α )) = x3 − 23x2 + x − 419, 1 Qm 23 m=1 √ 1 and this confirms that p(1) = 23 Tr(1) = 1. If β := 161529092 + 18648492 69, then we have β1/3 2782 23 P (α ) = + + , Q1 138 3β1/3 3 √ β1/3 1391 23 −3 β1/3 2782 P (α ) = − − + − · − . Q2 276 3β1/3 3 2 138 3β1/3 The claim in Theorem 1.1 that p(n) = Tr(n)/(24n − 1) is an example of a general theorem (see Theorem 3.6) on “traces” of CM values of certain weak Maass forms. This result pertains to weight 0 weak Maass forms which are images under the Maass raising operator of weight −2 harmonic Maass forms. We apply this to F (z) which is a weight −2 weakly holomorphic modular form, a meromorphic modular form whose poles are supported at cusps. Theorem 3.6 is a new result which adds to the extensive literature (for example, see [5, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 22, 29, 30]) inspired by Zagier’s seminal paper [35] on “traces” of singular moduli. To obtain this result, we employ the theory of theta lifts as in earlier work by Funke and the first author [8, 18]. Here we use the Kudla-Millson theta functions to construct a new theta lift (see Corollary 3.4), a result which is of independent interest. The lift maps spaces of weight −2 harmonic weak Maass forms to spaces of weight −1/2 vector valued harmonic weak Maass forms for Mp2(Z). In Section 2 we recall properties of these theta functions, and in Section 3 we construct the lift, and we then employ an argument of Katok and Sarnak to prove Theorem 3.6. In Section 3 we also indicate how Corollary 3.4 and Theorem 3.6 extend to general weights. In particular, we illustrate how to define theta lifts for general weights using the Kudla-Millson kernel and Maass differential operators. For the sake of brevity and the application to p(n), we chose to focus on the case of weight −2 harmonic Maass forms. To complete the proof of Theorem 1.1, we must show that the values P (αQ) are algebraic numbers1 with bounded denominators. To prove these claims, we require the classical theory of complex multiplication, as well as new results which bound denominators of suitable singular moduli. For example, we bound the denominators of the singular moduli (see Lemma 4.7)
1The algebraicity of such CM values follows from results of Shimura [33]. Here we give a new proof of this algebraicity. Our proof has the advantage that it bounds denominators. 4 JAN HENDRIK BRUINIER AND KEN ONO
of suitable nonholomorphic modular functions which contain the nonholomorphic Eisenstein ∗ series E2 (z) as a factor. Theorem 4.5 is our general result which bounds the denominators of algebraic Maass singular moduli such as P (αQ). These results are contained in Section 4. In Section 5 we give further examples, and we then conclude with some natural questions.
2. The Kudla-Millson theta functions We assume that the reader is familiar with basic facts about weak Maass forms (for example, see [9]). Using the Kudla-Millson theta functions, we will construct a theta lift from spaces of weight −2 harmonic weak Maass forms on Γ0(N) to weight −1/2 vector-valued harmonic Maass forms on Mp2(Z). This lift will be crucial to the proof of Theorem 3.6 which interprets coefficients of holomorphic parts of these weight −1/2 forms as “traces” of the CM values of weight 0 weak Maass forms with Laplacian eigenvalue −2. We begin by recalling some important facts about these theta functions in the setting of the present paper (see [26], [9]). Let N be a positive integer. Let (V,Q) be the quadratic space over Q of signature (1, 2) given by the trace zero 2 × 2 matrices x1 x2 (2.1) V := X = ∈ Mat2(Q) , x3 −x1 with the quadratic form Q(X) = N det(X). The corresponding bilinear form is (X,Y ) = −N tr(XY ). We let G = Spin(V ), viewed as an algebraic group over Q, and write G¯ for its image in SO(V ). We realize the associated symmetric space D as the Grassmannian of lines in V (R) on which the quadratic form Q is positive definite:
D '{z ⊂ V (R); dim z = 1 and Q|z > 0}.
The group SL2(Q) acts on V by conjugation g.X := gXg−1 ¯ for X ∈ V and g ∈ SL2(Q). This gives rise to the isomorphisms G ' SL2 and G ' PSL2 . The hermitian symmetric space D can be identified with the complex upper half plane H as 0 1 follows: We choose as a base point z0 ∈ D the line spanned by ( −1 0 ). Its stabilizer in G(R) is equal to K = SO(2). For z = x + iy ∈ H, we choose gz ∈ G(R) such that gzi = z. If we associate to z the vector 0 1 1 −x zz¯ (2.2) X(z) := g . = ∈ V ( ), z −1 0 y −1 x R then Q(X(z)) = N, and g.X(z) = X(gz) for g ∈ G(R). We obtain the isomorphism
(2.3) H −→ D, z 7→ gzz0 = RX(z). 2 The minimal majorant of ( , ) associated to z ∈ D is given by (X,X)z = (X,X(z)) −(X,X). Let L ⊂ V be an even lattice and write L0 for the dual lattice. Let Γ be a congruence subgroup of Spin(L), which takes L to itself and acts trivially on the discriminant group L0/L. We write M = Γ\D for the associated modular curve. Heegner points in M are given as follows. If X ∈ V (Q) with Q(X) > 0, we put
(2.4) DX = span(X) ∈ D. ALGEBRAIC FORMULAS FOR THE COEFFICIENTS OF WEAK MAASS FORMS 5
The stabilizer ΓX ⊂ Γ of X is finite. We denote by Z(X) the image of DX in M, counted 1 0 with multiplicity . For m ∈ >0 and h ∈ L /L, the group Γ acts on Lm,h = {X ∈ |Γ¯X | Q L + h; Q(X) = m} with finitely many orbits. We define the Heegner divisor of discriminant (m, h) on M by X (2.5) Z(m, h) = Z(X).
X∈Γ\Lm,h 2.1. The Kudla-Millson function. Kudla and Millson defined [26] a Schwartz function 1,1 ϕKM on V (R) valued in Ω (D), the differential forms on D of Hodge type (1, 1), by 1 (2.6) ϕ (X, z) = (X,X(z))2 − e−π(X,X)z Ω, KM 2π dx∧dy i dz∧dz¯ where Ω = y2 = 2 y2 . We have ϕ(g.X, gz) = ϕ(X, z) for g ∈ G(R). We define 1 (2.7) ϕ0 (X, z) = eπ(X,X)ϕ (X, z) = (X,X(z))2 − e−2πR(X,z) Ω, KM KM 2π where, following [25], we set 1 1 1 (2.8) R(X, z) := (X,X) − (X,X) = (X,X(z))2 − (X,X). 2 z 2 2N The quantity R(X, z) is always non-negative. It equals 0 if and only if z = DX , that is, if X lies in the line generated by X(z). Hence, for X 6= 0, this does not occur if Q(X) ≤ 0. Recall 0 that for Q(X) > 0, the 2-form ϕKM (X, z) is a Poincar´edual form for the Heegner point DX , while it is exact for Q(X) < 0.
2.2. The Weil representation. We write Mp2(R) for the metaplectic two-fold cover of a b SL2(R). The elements of this group are pairs (M, φ(τ)), where M = ( c d ) ∈ SL2(R) and φ : H → C is a holomorphic function with φ(τ)2 = cτ + d. The multiplication is defined by (M, φ(τ))(M 0, φ0(τ)) = (MM 0, φ(M 0τ)φ0(τ)). We denote the integral metaplectic group, the inverse image of SL ( ) under the covering map, 2 Z √ ˜ ˜ 1 1 0 −1 by Γ = Mp2(Z). It is well known that Γ is generated by T := (( 0 1 ) , 1), and S := (( 1 0 ) , τ). ˜ ˜ We let Γ∞ := hT i ⊂ Γ. 0 0 We denote the standard basis elements of the group ring C[L /L] by eh for h ∈ L /L. Recall (for example, see [3], [7]) that the Weil representation ρL associated with the discriminant form L0/L is the unitary representation of Γ˜ on C[L0/L] defined by 2 (2.9) ρL(T )(eh) := e(h /2)eh, 0 e(− sig(L /L)/8) X 0 (2.10) ρL(S)(eh) := e(−(h, h ))eh0 . p 0 |L /L| h0∈L0/L Here sig(L0/L) denotes the signature of the discriminant form L0/L modulo 8. 1 0 For k ∈ 2 Z, we let Hk,ρL be the space of C[L /L]-valued harmonic Maass forms of weight k for the group Γ˜ and the representation ρ . We write M ! for the subspace of weakly L k,ρL + holomorphic forms (see [9] for definitions). We note that Hk,ρL is denoted Hk,L in [9]. 6 JAN HENDRIK BRUINIER AND KEN ONO 2.3. Theta series. For τ = u + iv ∈ with u, v ∈ , we put g0 = ( 1 u ) v1/2 0 . We H R τ 0 1 0 v−1/2 denote by ω the Weil representation of Mp2(R) on the space of Schwartz functions S(V (R)). 0 For h ∈ L /L and ϕ ∈ S(V (R)) of weight k with respect to the action of SO(2f , R) ⊂ Mp2(R), we define the C[L0/L]-valued theta function X −k/2 0 (2.11) ΘL(τ, ϕ) = v (ω(gτ )ϕ)(X)eX . X∈L0
It is well known that ΘL(τ, ϕ) is a (in general non-holomorphic) modular form of weight k for ˜ Γ with representation ρL. In particular, for the Kudla-Millson Schwartz function, we obtain, in the variable τ, that
ΘL(τ, z, ϕKM ) := ΘL(τ, z, ϕKM (·, z)) ˜ is a non-holomorphic modular form of weight 3/2 for Γ with representation ρL. In z it is a Γ-invariant (1, 1)-form on D. We will also be interested in the standard Siegel theta function
ΘL(τ, z, ϕS) := ΘL(τ, z, ϕS(·, z)),
−π(X,X)z where ϕS(X, z) = e is the Gaussian on V (R) associated to the majorant (·, ·)z. In τ, ˜ it is a non-holomorphic modular form of weight −1/2 for Γ with representation ρL, while it is a Γ-invariant function in z. Explicitly we have
X −2πvR(X,z) ΘL(τ, z, ϕS) := v e e(Q(X)τ)eX . X∈L0
1 2.4. Differential operators. Let k ∈ 2 Z. Recall that the hyperbolic Laplace operator of weight k on functions in the variable τ on H is given by ∂2 ∂2 ∂ ∂ (2.12) ∆ = ∆ = −v2 + + ikv + i . k k,τ ∂u2 ∂v2 ∂u ∂v The Maass raising and lowering operators on non-holomorphic modular forms of weight k are defined as the differential operators ∂ (2.13) R = 2i + kv−1, k ∂τ ∂ (2.14) L = −2iv2 . k ∂τ¯
The raising operator Rk raises the weight of an automorphic form by 2, while Lk lowers it by 2. The Laplacian ∆k can be expressed in terms of Rk and Lk by
(2.15) −∆k = Lk+2Rk + k = Rk−2Lk. ¯ c 1 ¯ c We let ∂, ∂ and d be the usual differentials on D. We set d = 4πi (∂ − ∂), so that dd = 1 ¯ − 2πi ∂∂. According to [8, Theorem 4.4], the Kudla-Millson theta function and the Siegel theta function are related by the identity 1 (2.16) L Θ (τ, z, ϕ ) = −ddcΘ (τ, z, ϕ ) = ∆ Θ (τ, z, ϕ ) · Ω. 3/2,τ L KM L S 4π 0,z L S ALGEBRAIC FORMULAS FOR THE COEFFICIENTS OF WEAK MAASS FORMS 7
Moreover, by [7, Prop. 4.5], it follows that the Laplace operators on the Kudla-Millson theta kernel are related by 1 (2.17) ∆ Θ (τ, z, ϕ ) = ∆ Θ (τ, z, ϕ ). 3/2,τ L KM 4 0,z L KM
2.5. A lattice related to Γ0(N). For the rest of this section, we let L be the even lattice
b a/N (2.18) L := : a, b, c ∈ . c −b Z
The dual lattice is given by
b/2N a/N (2.19) L0 := : a, b, c ∈ . c −b/2N Z
We identify L0/L with Z/2NZ, and the quadratic form on L0/L is identified with the quadratic 2 form x 7→ −x on Z/2NZ. The level of L is 4N. The group Γ0(N) is contained in Spin(L) and acts trivially on L0/L. We denote by `, `0 the primitive isotropic vectors
0 1/N 0 0 ` = , `0 = 0 0 −1 0
1 0 0 in L, and write K for the one-dimensional lattice Z ( 0 −1 ) ⊂ L. We have L = K + Z` + Z` 0 ∼ 0 and L /L = K /K. For λ ∈ V (R) and z = x + iy ∈ H we let λz ∈ V (R) be the orthogonal projection of λ to RX(z). It is easily checked that 1 1 ` = X(z) and `2 = . z 2Ny z 2Ny2
Following [3] we define a theta function for the smaller lattice K as follows. For α, β ∈ K⊗R and h ∈ K0/K we put √ X ξh(τ, α, β) = v e Q(λ + β)¯τ − (λ + β/2, α) , λ∈K+h X ΞK (τ, α, β) = ξh(τ, α, β)eh. h∈K0/K
According to [3, Theorem 4.1], the function ΞK (τ, α, β) transforms like a non-holomorphic ˜ modular form of weight −1/2 for Γ with representation ρK . For z ∈ H we put µ(z) = −x 0 ( 0 x ) ∈ K ⊗ R. Theorem 5.2 of [3] allows us to rewrite ΘL as a Poincar´eseries: Proposition 2.1. We have that
∞ 1 1 X X πn2 ΘL(τ, z, ϕS) = ·ΞK (τ, 0, 0)+ exp − Ξ(τ, nµ(z), 0) |−1/2,ρ γ. p 2 p 2 2 K 2`z 2 2`z 2v`z n=1 γ∈Γ˜∞\Γ˜ 8 JAN HENDRIK BRUINIER AND KEN ONO
2.6. Poincar´eseries. We now recall some facts on Poincar´eseries with exponential growth 1 at the cusps. Let k ∈ 2 Z. Let Mν, µ(z) and Wν, µ(z) be the usual Whittaker functions (see p. 190 of [1]). For convenience, we put for s ∈ C and y ∈ R>0: −k/2 (2.20) Ms,k(y) = y M−k/2, s−1/2(y). For s = k/2, we have the identity
−k/2 y/2 (2.21) Mk/2,k(y) = y M−k/2, k/2−1/2(y) = e .
1 1 Let Γ∞ be the subgroup of Γ = Γ0(N) generated by ( 0 1 ). If k is integral, and m is a positive integer, we define the Poincar´eseries 1 X (2.22) F (z, s, k) = [M (4πmy)e(−mx)] | γ, m 2Γ(2s) s,k k γ∈Γ∞\Γ
where z = x + iy ∈ H and s ∈ C with <(s) > 1 (for example, see [7] ). This Poincar´eseries 2 converges for <(s) > 1, and it is an eigenfunction of ∆k with eigenvalue s(1−s)+(k −2k)/4. Its specialization at s0 = 1 − k/2 is a harmonic Maass form [7, Proposition 1.10]. Its principal part at the cusp ∞ is given by q−m + C for some constant C ∈ C, and the principal parts at the other cusps are constant. The next proposition describes the images of these series under the Maass raising operator. Proposition 2.2. We have that 1 R F (z, s, k) = (s + k/2)F (z, s, k + 2). 4πm k m m
Proof. Since Rk commutes with the slash operator, it suffices to show that 1 R M (4πmy)e(−mx) = (s + k/2)M (4πmy)e(−mx). 4πm k s,k s,k+2 This identity follows from (13.4.10) and (13.1.32) in [1].
We also define C[L0/L]-valued analogues of these series. Let h ∈ L0/L, and let m ∈ Z−Q(h) 1 be positive. For k ∈ Z − 2 we define 1 X (2.23) F (τ, s, k) = [M (4πmy)e(−mx)e ] | γ. m,h 2Γ(2s) s,k h k,ρL γ∈Γ˜∞\Γ˜
The series converges for <(s) > 1 and defines a weak Maass form of weight k for Γ˜ with 1 representation ρL. The special value at s = 1 − k/2 is harmonic. If k ∈ Z − 2 , it has the −m −m 0 principal part q eh + q e−h + C for some constant C ∈ C[L /L].
3. The theta lift and “traces” of CM values of weak Maass forms Here we construct the theta lift which we then use to prove that the coefficients of certain weight −1/2 harmonic weak Maass forms are “traces” of CM values of weak Maass forms. ALGEBRAIC FORMULAS FOR THE COEFFICIENTS OF WEAK MAASS FORMS 9
1 3.1. A theta lift. Let L be the lattice (2.18). For k ∈ 2 Z, we let Hk(N) denote the space ∞ of harmonic Maass forms of weight k for Γ := Γ0(N). We let Hk (N) denote the subspace of Hk(N) consisting of those harmonic Maass forms whose principal parts at all cusps other than ! ∞ are constant. We write Mk(N) for the subspace of weakly holomorphic forms in Hk(N), !,∞ ! ∞ and we put Mk (N) = Mk(N) ∩ Hk (N). For a weak Maass form f of weight −2 for Γ we define Z (3.1) Λ(τ, f) = L3/2,τ (R−2,zf(z))ΘL(τ, z, ϕKM ). M According to [9, Proposition 4.1], the Kudla-Millson theta kernel has exponential decay as O(e−Cy2 ) for y → ∞ at all cusps of Γ with some constant C > 0. Therefore the theta integral converges absolutely. It defines a C[L0/L]-valued function on H that transforms like a non- ˜ holomorphic modular form of weight −1/2 for Γ. We denote by Λh(τ, f) the components of 0 the lift Λ(τ, f) with respect to the standard basis (eh)h of C[L /L]. The group O(L0/L) can be identified with the group generated by the Atkin-Lehner invo- lutions. It acts on weak Maass forms for Γ by the Petersson slash operator. It also acts on 0 C[L /L]-valued modular forms with respect to the Weil representation ρL through the natural action on C[L0/L]. The following proposition, which is easily checked, shows that the theta lift is equivariant with respect to the action of O(L0/L). Proposition 3.1. For γ ∈ O(L0/L) and h ∈ L0/L, we have −1 Λγh(τ, f) = Λh(τ, f |−2 γ ).
Proposition 3.2. If f is an eigenform of the Laplacian ∆−2,z with eigenvalue λ, then Λ(τ, f) is an eigenform of ∆−1/2,τ with eigenvalue λ/4. Proof. The result follows from (2.17) and the fact that
(3.2) Rk∆k = (∆k+2 − k)Rk, ∆k−2Lk = Lk(∆k + 2 − k). We may use symmetry of the Laplacian on the functions in the integral because of the very rapid decay of the Kudla-Millson theta kernel [9, Proposition 4.1]. We now compute the lift of the Poincar´eseries. Theorem 3.3. If m is a positive integer, then we have 2−s√ 2 πNs(1 − s) X s 1 1 2 Λ τ, Fm(z, s, −2) = s 1 n ·F m , m (τ, 2 + 4 , − 2 ). Γ( − ) 4Nn2 n 2 2 n|m Proof. By definition we have Z Λ τ, Fm(z, s, −2) = L3/2,τ (R−2,zFm(z, s, −2))ΘL(τ, z, ϕKM ). M Employing Propsition 2.2 and (2.16), we see that this is equal to Z m(s − 1) Fm(z, s, 0)∆0,zΘL(τ, z, ϕS)Ω. M 10 JAN HENDRIK BRUINIER AND KEN ONO
Using definition (2.22), we find, by the usual unfolding argument, that m(s − 1) Z Λ τ, F (z, s, −2) = M (4πmy)e(−mx)∆ Θ (τ, z, ϕ )Ω. m Γ(2s) s,0 0,z L S Γ∞\H ˜ By Proposition 2.1, we may replace ∆0,zΘL(τ, z, ϕS) by ∆0,zΘL(τ, z, ϕS), where ∞ 2 ˜ 1 X X πn ΘL(τ, z, ϕS) = exp − Ξ(τ, nµ(z), 0) |−1/2,ρ γ. p 2 2 K 2 2`z 2v`z n=1 γ∈Γ˜∞\Γ˜ 2 1 ˜ Recall that `z = 2Ny2 . The function ΘL(τ, z, ϕS) and its partial derivatives have square exponential decay as y → ∞. Therefore, for <(s) large, we may move the Laplace operator to the Poincar´eseries and obtain m(s − 1) Z (3.3) Λ τ, F (z, s, −2) = ∆ M (4πmy)e(−mx)Θ˜ (τ, z, ϕ )Ω m Γ(2s) 0,z s,0 L S Γ∞\H ms(s − 1)2 Z = − M (4πmy)e(−mx)Θ˜ (τ, z, ϕ )Ω Γ(2s) s,0 L S Γ∞\H ∞ ms(s − 1)2 X X = − I(τ, s, m, n) | γ, Γ(2s) −1/2,ρK n=1 γ∈Γ˜∞\Γ˜ where Z ∞ Z 1 1 πn2 dx dy I(τ, s, m, n) = Ms,0(4πmy)e(−mx) exp − Ξ(τ, nµ(z), 0) . p 2 2 2 y=0 x=0 2 2`z 2v`z y 0 1/2N 0 0 ∼ If we use the fact that K = Z 0 −1/2N , and identify K /K = Z/2NZ, then we have √ X b2 Ξ(τ, nµ(z), 0) = v e − τ¯ − nbx e . 4N b b∈Z Inserting this in the formula for I(τ, s, m, n), and by integrating over x, we see that I(τ, s, m, n) vanishes when n - m. If n | m, then only the summand for b = −m/n occurs, and so √ Nv Z ∞ πNn2y2 dy m2 e I(τ, s, m, n) = Ms,0(4πmy) exp − e − 2 τ¯ −m/n. 2 0 v y 4Nn To compute this last integral, we note that 2s−1 p Ms,0(4πmy) = M0,s−1/2(4πmy) = 2 Γ(s + 1/2) 4πmy · Is−1/2(2πmy) (for example, see (13.6.3) in [1]). Substituting t = y2 in the integral, we obtain Z ∞ πNn2y2 dy Ms,0(4πmy) exp − 0 v y Z ∞ 2 2 2s−1 p πNn y dy = 2 Γ(s + 1/2) 4πmyIs−1/2(2πmy) exp − 0 v y Z ∞ √ 2 2s−1 √ πNn t −3/4 = 2 Γ(s + 1/2) πm Is−1/2(2πm t) exp − t dt. 0 v ALGEBRAIC FORMULAS FOR THE COEFFICIENTS OF WEAK MAASS FORMS 11
The latter integral is a Laplace transform which is computed in [16] (see (20) on p.197). Inserting the evaluation, we obtain Z ∞ πNn2y2 dy Ms,0(4πmy) exp − 0 v y Nn2 1/4 πm2v πm2v = 22s−1Γ(s/2) M exp πm2v 1/4,s/2−1/4 Nn2 2Nn2 Nn2 1/2 πm2v πm2v = 22s−1Γ(s/2) M exp . πm2v s/2+1/4,−1/2 Nn2 2Nn2 Consequently, we have in the case n | m that 22s−2Nn πm2v m2 I(τ, s, m, n) = √ Γ(s/2) M e − u e . πm s/2+1/4,−1/2 Nn2 4Nn2 −m/n Substituting this in (3.3), we find
2−s√ 2 πNs(1 − s) X s 1 1 2 Λ τ, Fm(z, s, −2) = s 1 n ·F m ,− m (τ, 2 + 4 , − 2 ). Γ( − ) 4Nn2 n 2 2 n|m
Since Fm,h(τ, s, −1/2) = Fm,−h(τ, s, −1/2), this concludes the proof of the theorem.
Corollary 3.4. If f ∈ H−2(N) is a harmonic Maass form of weight −2 for Γ0(N), then
Λ(τ, f) belongs to H−1/2,ρL . In particular, we have