Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/iii/paper-23/5/b/solution

With the determinant-normalized slash operator, let and . Conjugation by preserves , and rational slash operators preserve modular cusp holomorphy and vanishing. Hence is also a cusp form at that level. Direct substitution gives ; the factor cancels the central weight sign.
Put and . The defining formula gives the exact relations
In the initial half-plane of absolute convergence, termwise integration of the Fourier series and the gamma function yield the Mellin transform of a cusp-form L-function
The scaling of accounts for in the completion. At infinity and decay exponentially. At zero the boxed relation expresses as a power times an exponentially decaying function of . Thus this integral converges locally uniformly for every complex , including after differentiation in , and defines an entire function.
Splitting at one and changing to in the lower integral gives
Applying the same formula to interchanges , because . It proves the phase-normalized Fricke functional equation
The entire function here is the completion, despite the apparent poles of the gamma factor in its initial product formula.

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