Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 23 2 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Apply the Poisson summation formula to , with Fourier kernel . Its complex Gaussian Fourier transform isChoose the square root holomorphic on the half-plane and positive when is positive imaginary. Summing over integer givesHere the printed theta series of integer squares uses ; the common theta-constant convention instead uses .
To keep track of the shifted series, put and defineThus . The same Poisson calculation with a phase or shifted lattice gives and . Translation gives and . These are theta-constant inversion and translation laws.
Let and put , so . Raising the preceding identities to the eighth power removes all square-root and phase ambiguities:Also . The given generators, including their negatives, therefore establish weight four for on , and weight for .
The defining series is holomorphic and its expansion at infinity has no negative powers. At the other modular cusp,Writing gives , so the right side begins and is a holomorphic power series in . Taking its th power proves modular cusp holomorphy for every . ConsequentlyThe exponent in the shifted series is , as printed in the PDF, not the corrupted exponent in the TeX aid.