The new subspace is the orthogonal complement of the old subspace of cusp forms for the Petersson inner product. A form belongs to it precisely when the adjoints of all lower-level oldform by argument dilation maps annihilate it.
Take a nonzero eigenform of positive weight, and put and . The original form belongs to level by inclusion of groups. For , the conjugate lies in , so
Its Dirichlet character is therefore the specified reduced Dirichlet character; modular cusp holomorphy is permitted in the question. This is the Dirichlet character version of an oldform by argument dilation.
A nonzero positive-weight modular form cannot be constant, because the matrix would force a nonzero constant to equal times itself. Let be its first nonzero positive Fourier index. In a relation , the coefficient forces , then . Hence their span is two-dimensional, even when the original constant term is nonzero.
At the new level is a bad prime, so its operator is . The good-prime eigenrelation at the old level and part (c) give
Thus the matrix in the ordered basis is
with characteristic polynomial . For its distinct roots,
This is prime stabilization of an oldform.
The nonzero positive-weight qualification is necessary for the two-dimensional assertion. The zero form gives no such span, and if weight zero is allowed, at trivial Dirichlet character has distinct good-prime roots and , while spans only one dimension. The asserted result uses the usual nonzero positive-weight eigenform setting.
A modular form of integer weight for a finite-index subgroup is a holomorphic function on the complex upper half-plane satisfying for and holomorphic at every cusp of a modular group. Explicitly, for each choose a positive integer with . Then is periodic with period , and its expansion in must have no negative powers. Equivalently it must be bounded as , uniformly in one period. This definition applies to noncongruence subgroups too. If , nonzero forms require even weight.
Put and let . Form the product over left cosets
Changing a representative does not affect a factor. Right multiplication permutes the cosets, so the product is a nonzero level-one modular form of weight . It is holomorphic on the upper half-plane and at infinity, since every factor is bounded there by cusp holomorphy.
Let be the least positive integer with , and write . If is its first nonzero index, the distinct cosets , , give the factors . Their product has leading term a nonzero constant times . All remaining factors are bounded at infinity. Hence , so its level-one order satisfies . Notice that using just the single factor would only give ; the entire translation orbit is needed.
The permitted valence formula for the modular group bounds , because all its other weighted zero orders are nonnegative. Thus . With , the map is injective: a nonzero form in its kernel would have . This proves the dimension bound for modular forms on a finite-index subgroup:
For the dilation assertion, the original PDF states , a product-divisibility condition, rather than the TeX's chain . Use the PDF condition. Put . If , then
since . Therefore, for , either direct substitution or the slash operator for modular forms gives . It is holomorphic on the upper half-plane.
To verify every cusp, take and choose taking infinity to the rational cusp . Then is rational upper triangular, with positive ratio of its two diagonal entries. Consequently
is a nonzero constant factor times evaluated at an affine map with . The imaginary part tends to infinity, where is bounded. Thus is bounded too. Together with its periodicity this proves cusp holomorphy by the Riemann removable singularity theorem. Hence the oldform by argument dilation satisfies
Finally has index four: reduction modulo three gives a transitive action on the four points of , and is the inverse image of the stabilizer of infinity. Reduction is surjective, since elementary determinant-one matrices generate and lift integrally. The dimension bound gives .
The normalized Eisenstein series and the oldform both belong to this space. Their Fourier expansion of a normalized Eisenstein series starts as
A linear relation between them has zero constant term only if its two scalars sum to zero; its coefficient then forces both scalars to vanish. They are independent, proving the weight-four modular forms on Gamma 0 3 description
Weight-four modular forms on Gamma 0 3 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
The group has index four. The dimension bound for modular forms on a finite-index subgroup gives dimension at most two in weight four. The Eisenstein series and its oldform by argument dilation are independent, since their constant coefficients agree while their coefficients are and zero.