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