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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 137 3 Solution by
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Use the valence formula for the modular group: for a nonzero modular form of weight on ,The sum contains one representative of each other modular group orbit of zeros. The orders are nonnegative because is holomorphic on the complex upper half-plane and at infinity. The half and third weights account for the elliptic stabilizers of the modular group.
In weight two, the transformation under at its fixed point gives . Thus any nonzero would have . The valence formula for the modular group would give a left side at least and a right side , which is impossible. Therefore the unheaded request is answered by vanishing of weight-two level-one modular forms:
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