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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 137 5 a Solution by
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For a weight- cusp form, the invariant norm of a modular form , with , is unchanged by the modular group: and cancel exactly.
Every orbit meets the standard fundamental domain of the modular group , where . The Fourier expansion of a modular form at the cusp has , with holomorphic near zero, since is a cusp form. Thus uniformly in as , and tends to zero there. On the remaining compact part of it is bounded by continuity. Invariance therefore gives
For every , Fourier coefficient extraction givesFor , minimize the last factor by taking . This proves the Fourier coefficient bound for a cusp formThe assertion concerns positive indices; the constant coefficient vanishes because is a cusp form.
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