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Bianchi modular forms

Let KK be an imaginary quadratic number field of class number 11, and OK\mathcal{O}_K be its ring of integers. Let Γ\Gamma be a congruence subgroup of the Bianchi group PSL2(OK)\textrm{PSL}_2(\mathcal{O}_K). Let H3\mathcal{H}_3 be hyperbolic 3-space. A Bianchi modular form for Γ\Gamma with weight k≥0k\ge0 is a real analytic vector-valued function F:H3→Ck+1F: \mathcal{H}_3 \rightarrow \mathbb{C}^{k+1} with the properties

  1. F∣kγ=FF|_k\gamma = F for every γ∈Γ\gamma \in \Gamma;
  2. FF is harmonic;
  3. FF has at worst polynomial growth at each cusp of Γ\Gamma.

The set M(Γ,k)M(\Gamma,k) of Bianchi modular forms for Γ\Gamma with weight kk is a finite dimensional complex vector space. Bianchi modular forms have a Fourier-Bessel expansion., with coefficients indexed by elements of OK\mathcal{O}_K. Bianchi modular forms which vanish at all the cusps are called Bianchi cusp forms; their 00th coefficient is 00.

In condition 1, the weight kk "slash operator" is defined by (F∣kγ)(z):=Symk(J(γ,z)−1) F(γz), (F |_k\gamma)(z):=\mathrm{Sym}^k(J(\gamma, z)^{-1}) \ F(\gamma z), where Symk\mathrm{Sym}^k is the symmetric kthk^{th} power of the standard representation of PSL2(C)\textrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C}) on C2\mathbb{C}^2, and for γ=(abcd)∈PSL2(C)\gamma=\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c&d \end{pmatrix} \in \textrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C}) we define J(γ,z):=(cx+d−cycˉycx+d‾). J(\gamma, z):= \begin{pmatrix} cx+d & -cy \\ \bar{c}y & \overline{cx+d}\end{pmatrix}.

Condition 2, harmonicity, is the analogue of the usual condition of being holomorphic for classical and Hilbert modular forms. It means that ΨF=0\Psi F=0 and Ψ′F=0\Psi' F=0, where the differential operators Ψ\Psi, Ψ′\Psi' are the Casismir operators which generate the center of the universal enveloping algebra of the Lie algebra associated to the real Lie group PSL2(C)\textrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C}).

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