Theta characteristics and noncongruence modular forms

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Main Author: Oh, Gyujin
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contents The Hodge bundle $ω$ over a modular curve is a square-root of the canonical bundle twisted by the cuspidal divisor, or a theta characteristic, due to the Kodaira--Spencer isomorphism. We prove that, in most cases, a section of a theta characteristic $ν$ (or any odd power of it) different from $ω$ is a noncongruence modular form. On the other hand, we show how $ν\neω$ gives rise to a ``twisted'' analogue of the diagonal period map to a Siegel threefold, whose difference attributes to the stackiness of the moduli of abelian surfaces $\mathcal{A}_{2}$. Some questions on the Brill--Noether theory of the modular curves are answered.
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spellingShingle Theta characteristics and noncongruence modular forms
Oh, Gyujin
Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
The Hodge bundle $ω$ over a modular curve is a square-root of the canonical bundle twisted by the cuspidal divisor, or a theta characteristic, due to the Kodaira--Spencer isomorphism. We prove that, in most cases, a section of a theta characteristic $ν$ (or any odd power of it) different from $ω$ is a noncongruence modular form. On the other hand, we show how $ν\neω$ gives rise to a ``twisted'' analogue of the diagonal period map to a Siegel threefold, whose difference attributes to the stackiness of the moduli of abelian surfaces $\mathcal{A}_{2}$. Some questions on the Brill--Noether theory of the modular curves are answered.
title Theta characteristics and noncongruence modular forms
topic Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18429