The q-expansion of the upper-triangular Hecke sum #
UpperTri/Sum.lean defines heckeSlashUpperTri k p f = ∑ b < p, f ∣[k] !![1, b; 0, p], and the
files beside it carry it past holomorphy, the cusps and invariance under T. What was missing is
what the sum does to Fourier coefficients, and that is what this file computes:
aₘ(heckeSlashUpperTri k p f) = a_{p m}(f).
Three steps do it. Slashing by !![1, b; 0, p] sends τ to (τ + b) / p, and both the
determinant and the denominator are p, so the automorphy factor is p ^ (k - 1) * p ^ (-k),
that is p⁻¹: the weight cancels out, which is why the answer below carries no power of p.
The local parameter then splits, 𝕢 1 ((τ + b) / p) = 𝕢 p τ * 𝕢 p b. Finally the offsets
contribute the p-th roots of unity 𝕢 p b, whose m-th powers sum to p exactly when
p ∣ m (TauCeti.Periodic.sum_qParam_natCast_pow); the p cancels the p⁻¹, and only the
indices in p ℕ survive.
Two conventions worth stating #
- This is the operator that Diamond–Shurman's
Tₚdegenerates to atp ∣ N— the one modern papers writeUₚ. Following the sources, no separateUₚis introduced: the classicalTₚwill be built on top of this sum, and atp ∣ Nit is this sum. Forp ∤ Nthe classicalTₚhas one further coset representative,!![p, 0; 0, 1], which contributes the second termχ(p) p ^ (k - 1) a_{m/p}(f)of the recurrence; that representative is not part of this sum and does not appear here. - The expansions are taken at width
1, which is the width of∞for every group betweenΓ₁(N)andΓ₀(N). The hypotheses are the three that Mathlib'sq-expansion API asks of a raw function onℍ— periodicity throughofComplex, holomorphy, boundedness ati∞— andqExpansion_coeff_heckeSlashUpperTri'discharges all three fromModularFormClass.
Main results #
HeckeRing.GL2.coe_upperTriRep_smul,HeckeRing.GL2.qParam_one_upperTriRep_smul: the Möbius image(τ + b) / pof a representative, and the resulting factorisation of the local parameter.HeckeRing.GL2.slash_upperTriRep_apply: slashing by a representative isp⁻¹ * f ((τ + b)/p), whatever the weight.HeckeRing.GL2.hasSum_qExpansion_heckeSlashUpperTri: the sum is given everywhere by the convergent expansion∑ j, a_{p j}(f) q ^ j.HeckeRing.GL2.qExpansion_coeff_heckeSlashUpperTriandqExpansion_heckeSlashUpperTri: the coefficient formulaaₘ = a_{p m}and its power-series form, andqExpansion_coeff_heckeSlashUpperTri', the same for a bundled modular form.HeckeRing.GL2.periodic_heckeSlashUpperTri: the periodicity fact used by the coefficient uniqueness argument.
Provenance #
No code is transcribed. The computation is the classical one — the q-expansion of the operator
Diamond–Shurman write Tₚ — run here through Mathlib's q-expansion API and the roots-of-unity
orthogonality relation, rather than through a transcribed proof.
References #
The Möbius image of τ under !![1, b; 0, p] is (τ + b) / p.
The local parameter of width 1 at (τ + b) / p factors as the parameter of width p
at τ times its value at the offset b.
Slashing by !![1, b; 0, p]: the determinant and the denominator are both p, so the
automorphy factor collapses to p ^ (k - 1) * p ^ (-k) = p⁻¹, independent of the weight.
The upper-triangular Hecke sum has the q-expansion of f along the progression p ℕ.
Summing the twisted expansion of each representative over the offsets b < p, the
roots-of-unity orthogonality relation kills every term whose index is not divisible by p, and
the surviving terms are exactly a_{p j}(f) q^j.
The upper-triangular sum of a 1-periodic function is 1-periodic, in the
ofComplex-extended form the q-expansion API asks for.
The coefficient formula for the upper-triangular Hecke sum:
aₘ(∑_{b < p} f ∣[k] !![1, b; 0, p]) = a_{p m}(f).
This is the operator classical sources write Uₚ at p ∣ N, and it is the first half of the
Diamond–Shurman recurrence aₘ(Tₚ f) = a_{m p}(f) + χ(p) p^{k−1} a_{m/p}(f); the second term
comes from the remaining representative !![p, 0; 0, 1], which is not part of this sum. Note
that the weight has disappeared: the automorphy factor of each representative is p⁻¹
whatever k is, and the p cancels against the number of offsets.
qExpansion_coeff_heckeSlashUpperTri as an identity of power series: the upper-triangular
sum extracts the subseries of f supported on the multiples of p, reindexed.
The coefficient formula for a bundled modular form, the shape Layer 2(b) consumes: for
f a modular form of weight k on a group with 1 among its strict periods — every
congruence subgroup between Γ₁(N) and Γ₀(N) has this, since it contains T — the
upper-triangular sum reads off the coefficients of f along p ℕ.