LMFDB definition
Bianchi modular forms
Let be an imaginary quadratic number field of class number , and be its ring of integers. Let be a congruence subgroup of the Bianchi group . Let be hyperbolic 3-space. A Bianchi modular form for with weight is a real analytic vector-valued function with the properties
- for every ;
- is harmonic;
- has at worst polynomial growth at each cusp of .
The set of Bianchi modular forms for with weight is a finite dimensional complex vector space. Bianchi modular forms have a Fourier-Bessel expansion., with coefficients indexed by elements of . Bianchi modular forms which vanish at all the cusps are called Bianchi cusp forms; their th coefficient is .
In condition 1, the weight "slash operator" is defined by where is the symmetric power of the standard representation of on , and for we define
Condition 2, harmonicity, is the analogue of the usual condition of being holomorphic for classical and Hilbert modular forms. It means that and , where the differential operators , are the Casismir operators which generate the center of the universal enveloping algebra of the Lie algebra associated to the real Lie group .
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