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Modular cocycles and cup product. (English) Zbl 1469.11132

Summary: The Eichler-Shimura isomorphism relates holomorphic modular cusps forms of positive even integral weight to cohomology classes. The Haberland formula uses the cup product to give a cohomological formulation of the Petersson scalar product. In this paper we extend Haberland’s formula to modular cusp forms of positive real weight. This relation is based on the cup product of an Eichler cocycle and a Knopp cocycle.
We may also consider the cup product of two Eichler cocycles. In the classical situation this cup product is almost always zero. However we show evidence that for real weights this cup product may very well be non-trivial. We approach the question whether the cup product is a non-trivial coinvariant by duality with a space of entire modular forms. The cup product yields a bilinear map over \(\mathbb{C}\) from pairs of holomorphic modular forms (not necessarily of the same weight, one of them may have large growth at the cusps) to coinvariants in infinite-dimensional modules. To investigate whether this bilinear map is non-trivial we test the result against entire modular forms of a suitable weight. Under some conditions on the weights, this leads to an explicit triple integral, which can be investigated numerically, thus providing evidence that the cup product is non-trivial at least in some situations.

MSC:

11F67 Special values of automorphic \(L\)-series, periods of automorphic forms, cohomology, modular symbols
11F03 Modular and automorphic functions
11F30 Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms
11F75 Cohomology of arithmetic groups
22E50 Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over local fields

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