On the parity of coefficients of eta powers

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Charlton, Steven, Mauth, Lukas, Medvedovsky, Anna
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916496785014784
author Charlton, Steven
Mauth, Lukas
Medvedovsky, Anna
author_facet Charlton, Steven
Mauth, Lukas
Medvedovsky, Anna
contents We consider a special subsequence of the Fourier coefficients of powers of the Dedekind $η$-function, analogous to the sequence $δ_\ell := 24^{-1} \pmod{\ell}$ on which exceptional congruences of the partition function are supported. Therefrom we define a notion of density $D(r)$ for a normalized eta-power $η^r$ measuring the proportion of primes $\ell$ for which the order at infinity of $U_\ell (η^r)$ modulo 2 is maximal. We relate $D(r)$ to a notion of density measuring nonzero prime Fourier coefficients introduced by Bellaïche, and use this to completely classify the vanishing of and establish upper bounds for $D(r)$. Furthermore, for several infinite families of $η$ powers corresponding to dihedral/CM mod-2 modular forms in the sense of Nicholas-Serre and Bellaïche, we explicitly compute the densities $D$. We rely on Galois-theoretic techniques developed by Bellaïche in level 1 and extend these to level 9. En passant we take the opportunity to communicate proofs of two of Bellaïche's unpublished results on densities of mod-$2$ modular forms.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2411_17638
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle On the parity of coefficients of eta powers
Charlton, Steven
Mauth, Lukas
Medvedovsky, Anna
Number Theory
Primary: 11F33, Secondary: 11F03, 11F20, 11F80, 11P83, 11R45
We consider a special subsequence of the Fourier coefficients of powers of the Dedekind $η$-function, analogous to the sequence $δ_\ell := 24^{-1} \pmod{\ell}$ on which exceptional congruences of the partition function are supported. Therefrom we define a notion of density $D(r)$ for a normalized eta-power $η^r$ measuring the proportion of primes $\ell$ for which the order at infinity of $U_\ell (η^r)$ modulo 2 is maximal. We relate $D(r)$ to a notion of density measuring nonzero prime Fourier coefficients introduced by Bellaïche, and use this to completely classify the vanishing of and establish upper bounds for $D(r)$. Furthermore, for several infinite families of $η$ powers corresponding to dihedral/CM mod-2 modular forms in the sense of Nicholas-Serre and Bellaïche, we explicitly compute the densities $D$. We rely on Galois-theoretic techniques developed by Bellaïche in level 1 and extend these to level 9. En passant we take the opportunity to communicate proofs of two of Bellaïche's unpublished results on densities of mod-$2$ modular forms.
title On the parity of coefficients of eta powers
topic Number Theory
Primary: 11F33, Secondary: 11F03, 11F20, 11F80, 11P83, 11R45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17638