Holomorphic automorphic forms and cohomology

Bruggeman, Roelof, Choie, YoungJu and Diamantis, Nikolaos (2018) Holomorphic automorphic forms and cohomology. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 253 (1212). ISSN 0065-9266

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Abstract

We investigate the correspondence between holomorphic automorphic forms on the upper half-plane with complex weight and parabolic cocycles. For integral weights at least 2 this correspondence is given by the Eichler integral. We use Knopp’s generalization of this integral to real weights, and apply it to complex weights that are not an integer at least 2. We show that for these weights the generalized Eichler integral gives an injection into the first cohomology group with values in a module of holomorphic functions, and characterize the image. We impose no condition on the growth of the automorphic forms at the cusps. Our result concerns arbitrary cofinite discrete groups with cusps, and covers exponentially growing automorphic forms, like those studied by Borcherds, and like those in the theory of mock automorphic forms. For real weights that are not an integer at least 2 we similarly characterize the space of cusp forms and the space of entire automorphic forms. We give a relation between the cohomology classes attached to holomorphic automorphic forms of real weight and the existence of harmonic lifts. A tool in establishing these results is the relation to cohomology groups with values in modules of “analytic boundary germs”, which are represented by harmonic functions on subsets of the upper half-plane. It turns out that for integral weights at least 2 the map from general holomorphic automorphic forms to cohomology with values in analytic boundary germs is injective. So cohomology with these coefficients can distinguish all holomorphic automorphic forms, unlike the classical Eichler theory.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: First published in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society in v. 253, no. 1212, 2018, published by the American Mathematical Society.
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Mathematical Sciences
Identification Number: 10.1090/memo/1212
Depositing User: Diamantis, Dr Nikolaos
Date Deposited: 25 Apr 2018 08:38
Last Modified: 25 Apr 2018 08:47
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/41245

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