Iterated Eisenstein summation in weight two Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-14
In the displayed iterated order, with the sum evaluated first, . The cosecant partial-fraction identity gives the positive- contribution ; negative gives the same contribution. Including the term yields . The full lattice series does not have absolute convergence, so this order must not be replaced by arbitrary rearrangement.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 26 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Put and . Separate the terms in the lattice Eisenstein series. Differentiating the cosecant partial-fraction identity times gives, for ,The initial identity is ; differentiation accounts for the factorial and the sign. Pair and and collect the products . Absolute convergence of the lattice sum for , and local uniform convergence of the resulting power series, justify these operations. Thus the requested Fourier expansions areHere , and the Bernoulli numbers have convention . The second formula uses Euler's even-value identity for the Riemann zeta function, . In particular and .
We need the rational, rather than merely complex, version of the polynomial ring of level-one modular forms. Recall how the valence formula for the modular group supplies its proof. For a nonzero weight- modular form, with ,Integrate around a truncated standard fundamental domain of the modular group, indenting around boundary zeros. The paired vertical sides cancel by translation; pair the two halves of the circular edge using . The logarithmic derivative of supplies , while the top edge supplies . The half-disc and third-disc at the two elliptic points account for the fractions . The argument principle then gives the formula. All orders in it are nonnegative for a holomorphic modular form. It follows that negative weights have no forms, , and : a weight-two form vanishes at , contributing at least .
Define . It is a weight-twelve cusp form and its expansion starts with . The valence formula for the modular group forces its order at infinity to be exactly one and leaves no interior zeros. Thus division by identifies with . Every nonnegative even has a monomial of weight : solve , taking when is even and when it is odd and at least three. Subtract the constant coefficient of a modular form times such a monomial and divide by . Induction on weight proves generation by .
If the original Fourier coefficients are rational, every step preserves rationality: both generators and have rational expansions, and formal division by does too. This proves the rational structure of level-one modular forms. Write with and . Rescaling givesThe Bernoulli number formula above makes each zeta ratio rational: its powers of cancel precisely because the weights agree. This proves the required rational coefficients for the unnormalized lattice Eisenstein sums.
Finally because the quotient weights are negative, and because . In each of these weights a form is determined by its constant coefficient. The indicated monomials have that coefficient equal to one, so
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 137 3 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The displayed definition uses iterated Eisenstein summation in weight two: the sum in is evaluated before the sum in , with the single term omitted. This order is essential. The two-dimensional lattice series does not have absolute convergence, so arbitrary rearrangement would not be justified.
For noninteger , the cosecant partial-fraction identity isFor completeness, apply the residue theorem to on squares with large half-integer sides. The cotangent is bounded on the contours and the integral is . Its residues at the integers are and its residue at is , proving the formula. If , the geometric-series expression , differentiated termwise, gives the cotangent partial-fraction Fourier kernel
Put with in the complex upper half-plane. For positive , this gives . Negative gives the same value, by replacing with in its inner sum. The row is , by the Basel problem. The resulting series in does have absolute convergence, locally uniformly in , so collecting the coefficient at is legitimate:The coefficient is the sum-of-divisors function, since runs over the positive divisors of . ThusThere is no conflict with vanishing of weight-two level-one modular forms: the Eisenstein series of weight two has an anomalous transformation term, so it is not a weight-two modular form.