Representations by sextenary quadratic forms with coefficients $1,2,3$ and $6$ and on newforms in $S_{3} (\Gamma_0 (24), \chi )$
Zafer Selcuk Aygin

TL;DR
This paper employs modular form theory to derive formulas for representations by sextenary quadratic forms with coefficients 1, 2, 3, and 6, and expresses newforms in a specific modular space as eta quotients.
Contribution
It provides explicit formulas for counting representations by certain sextenary quadratic forms and expresses newforms in terms of eta quotients.
Findings
Formulas for $N(1^{l_1},2^{l_2},3^{l_3},6^{l_6};n)$ for all $l_i$ with sum 6.
Representation counts are explicitly computed using modular forms.
Newforms in $S_{3} ( ext{Gamma}_0(24), ext{chi})$ are expressed as eta quotients.
Abstract
We use theory of modular forms to give formulas for for all , with . We also apply our results to write newforms in in terms of eta quotients.
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TopicsAdvanced Algebra and Geometry · Analytic Number Theory Research · Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
Representations by sextenary quadratic forms with coefficients and and on newforms in
Zafer Selcuk Aygin
Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore
Abstract.
We use theory of modular forms to give formulas for for all , with . We also apply our results to write newforms in in terms of eta quotients.
Key words and phrases:
Dedekind eta function; eta quotients; eta products; theta functions; Eisenstein series; Eisenstein forms; modular forms; cusp forms; Fourier coefficients; Fourier series.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 11F11, 11F20, 11F27, 11E20, 11E25, 11F30
1. Introduction
Let , , , and denote the sets of positive integers, non-negative integers, integers, complex numbers and the upper half plane, respectively. We use the notation with , and so . Let and be the modular subgroup defined by
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We write to denote the space of modular forms of weight for with multiplier , and and to denote the subspaces of Eisenstein forms and cusp forms of , respectively. It is known (see [25, p. 83], [22, Theorem 2.1.7]) that
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Let and be primitive characters. For we define by
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If we set . For each quadratic discriminant , we put \chi_{{}_{t}}(n)=\displaystyle{\Bigl{(}{\frac{t}{n}}\Bigr{)}}, where \displaystyle{\Bigl{(}{\frac{t}{n}}\Bigr{)}} is Kronecker symbol defined by [23, p. 296].
Suppose . Let and be primitive Dirichlet characters such that and with conductors , respectively. The weight Eisenstein series are defined by
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where
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and the generalized Bernoulli numbers attached to are defined by the following equation:
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from which we compute
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We use Eisenstein series in Section 3 to give bases for , see [25, Theorem 5.9].
The Dedekind eta function is the holomorphic function defined on the upper half plane by the product formula
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A product of the form
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where , not all zero, is called an eta quotient. We use eta quotients to express the generating functions for number of representations by quadratic forms and to give bases for . Let be the divisors of , in ascending order. For convenience, we use the following shorthand notation
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The order of zeros of an eta quotient given by (1.6) at the cusp is
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see [18, Proposition 3.2.8, p. 34].
Let , , and for all . Let
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denote the number of representations of by the quadratic form
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Ramanujan’s theta function is defined by
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thus the generating function of number of representations of by the quadratic form (1.8) is given by
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On the other hand by Jacobi’s triple product identity [10, p. 10] we have
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That is, we can rewrite the generating function in terms of eta quotients as follows:
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Finding the formulas for number of representations of a number by quadratic forms is an interesting subject in number theory. See [13] for a classical history of this research. For contemporary accounts of the subject see, [7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 17, 21, 24]. Recently in [3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 27] representations by sextenary quadratic forms was studied. Formulas for all of the diagonal forms with coefficients , and , and some of the diagonal forms with coefficients and are given in these works. In this paper we use theory of modular forms to give formulas for all diagonal sextenary quadratic forms with coefficients , , and , i.e. we give formulas for
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The formulas for all the sextenary quadratic forms are given in Tables LABEL:table:9_1–LABEL:table:9_4. Among them only were previously known in the papers mentioned above, they all agree with our results, due to different choices of eta quotients to express cusp parts of the formulas. We chose the bases for cusp form spaces in a way that each eta quotient chosen to be in the basis have different orders of zeros at infinity. We also use these bases of cusp form spaces to write newforms in terms of eta quotients.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we determine the modular spaces of the generating functions of (1.10). In Section 3 we construct the bases for these modular form spaces. In Section 4, we use those bases obtained in Section 3, to give formulas for (1.10). In the last section we use bases of cusp form spaces obtained in Section 3 to write some newforms in terms of eta quotients.
2. Preliminary results
In this section we use Theorem 2.1 which is referred to as Ligozat’s Criteria, see [16, Theorem 5.7, p. 99], [18], and [19, Proposition 1, p. 284], to determine the modular form spaces of the generating functions of (1.10).
Theorem 2.1**.**
*Let be an eta quotient given by (1.6) which satisfies the following conditions
(L1) * ,
(L2) * ,
(L3) * for each positive divisor of ,
(L4) * is a positive integer.
Then where the character is given by*
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Furthermore, if the inequalities in (L3) are all strict then .
We use the multiplicative properties of the Kronecker symbol to give a simpler description of the character given by (2.1) for . Let be the squarefree part of . Then we have
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Next we determine the modular form spaces of generating functions of (1.10).
Theorem 2.2**.**
Let () and . Then we have
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Proof.
Let () and , then we have
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By [15, Proposition 2.6] a set of representatives of all cusps of can be chosen as follows:
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We use (1.7) to compute the orders of (2.6) at each cusp :
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So by Theorem 2.1, is in , where, by appealing to (2.4), we have
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∎
3. Bases for
In this section we give bases for () in terms of Eisenstein series and eta quotients.
Theorem 3.1**.**
**(i)**The set of Eisenstein series
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*constitute a basis for .
(ii) The ordered set of eta quotients*
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*constitute a basis for .
(iii) The set constitute a basis for .*
Proof.
Let and be primitive characters with conductors and , respectively. By [25, Theorem 5.9], the set of Eisenstein series
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gives a basis for . All (primitive) characters with conductors dividing and their values at numbers coprime to 24 are given in the following table, where denotes conductor of the corresponding character.
From the table we calculate
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That is . Thus we deduce that the set of Eisenstein series given by constitute a basis for .
Now we prove assertion (ii) of the theorem. From [25, Section 6.3] we obtain
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Let . By (1.7), for we have
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So, by Theorem 2.1 and (2.4), . Similarly we show that for all eta quotients , we have . The orders of all the eta quotients in at the cusp (or equivalently at ) are different. Thus eta quotients given in are linearly independent, which completes the proof of part (ii).
Part (iii) of theorem follows from (1.2). ∎
The rest of the theorems in this section can be proven similarly.
Theorem 3.2**.**
**(i)**The set of Eisenstein series
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*constitute a basis for .
(ii) The ordered set of eta quotients*
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*constitute a basis for .
(iii) The set constitute a basis for .*
Theorem 3.3**.**
**(i)**The set of Eisenstein series
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*constitute a basis for .
(ii) The ordered set of eta quotients*
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*constitute a basis for .
(iii) The set constitute a basis for .*
Theorem 3.4**.**
**(i)**The set of Eisenstein series
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*constitute a basis for .
(ii) The ordered set of eta quotients*
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*constitute a basis for .
(iii) The set constitute a basis for .*
4. Main Results: Sextenary Quadratic Forms
In Section 2, we determined that the generating functions of (1.10) are modular forms, whose corresponding spaces are given by Theorem 2.2. In Section 3 we constructed the bases for all these modular form spaces. In this section we use those bases obtained to state Theorems 4.1 and 4.2, which combined with the Tables LABEL:table:9_1–LABEL:table:9_4, give the desired formulas for the numbers of representations of positive integers by diagonal sextenary quadratic forms with coefficients , , and . Note that stands for the th element in the ordered set .
Theorem 4.1**.**
Let () and . Then we have
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where the values , , ; , , ; , , ; , are given in Tables LABEL:table:9_1 – LABEL:table:9_4, respectively.
Proof.
Appealing to (1.2) and Theorems 3.1–3.4 we deduce the linear combinations given by (4.10). We determine the values of , , , , , , , , , , by comparing the first few coefficients of the Fourier series expansions of both sides in (4.10). Solutions to resulting equations generate Tables LABEL:table:9_1–LABEL:table:9_4. We use MAPLE to perform the calculations. ∎
We compare the coefficients of () in the equations given by Theorem 4.1 to obtain the following theorem.
Theorem 4.2**.**
Let () and . Then for we have
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where the values , , ; , , ; , , ; , are given in Tables LABEL:table:9_1 – LABEL:table:9_4, respectively.
5. Newforms in
In this section we give another use of the bases provided in Section 3. In [20] Martin and Ono expressed all weight newforms that are eta quotients. Below we express the newforms in in terms of eta quotients from Section 3.
Theorem 5.1**.**
*Let *
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where , and . Then we have
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Proof.
First Fourier coefficients of newforms in are given in [26], for example, we have
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On the other hand, , that is by Theorem 3.1 we have
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for some . We expand the eta quotients in (5.2), and compare first ten coefficients of (5.2) with (5.1). We solve the resulting linear equations and find
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The rest can be proven similarly. ∎
Remarks
We did some further investigations on the spaces mentioned in this paper. Using methods similar to [1], we determined that there are , , and eta quotients in , , and , respectively. Using methods similar to [2] we find, among them , , and none can be written in terms of Eisenstein series, respectively. This allows us to determine the Fourier coefficients of these eta quotients in terms of sum of divisors functions defined by (1.3). Below, as an example, we list the eta quotients which can be written with no more than two Eisenstein series.
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Some of these equations were previously known.
Acknowledgments
The author was supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund, Tier 2, project number MOE2014-T2-1-051, ARC40/14.
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