Ternary Quadratic Forms and Eta Quotients

Williams, Kenneth S.

Canadian mathematical bulletin, Tome 58 (2015) no. 4, pp. 858-868

Résumé

Let $\eta \left( z \right)\,\left( z\,\in \,\mathbb{C},\,\operatorname{Im}\left( z \right)\,>\,0 \right)$ denote the Dedekind eta function. We use a recent product-to-sum formula in conjunction with conditions for the non-representability of integers by certainternary quadratic forms to give explicitly ten eta quotients $$f\left( z \right)\,:=\,{{\eta }^{a\left( {{m}_{1}} \right)}}\,\left( {{m}_{1}}z \right)\,.\,.\,.\,{{\eta }^{a\left( {{m}_{r}} \right)}}\,\left( {{m}_{r}}z \right)\,=\,\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty }{c\left( n \right){{e}^{2\pi inz}},\,\,\,z\,\in \,\mathbb{C},\,\operatorname{Im}\left( z \right)\,>\,0,}$$ such that the Fourier coefficients $c\left( n \right)$ vanish for all positive integers $n$ in each of infinitely many non-overlapping arithmetic progressions. For example, we show that if $f\left( z \right)\,=\,{{\eta }^{4}}\left( z \right){{\eta }^{9}}\left( 4z \right){{\eta }^{-2}}\left( 8z \right)$ we have $c\left( n \right)\,=\,0$ for all $n$ in each of the arithmetic progressions ${{\{16k\,+\,14\}}_{k\ge 0}},\,{{\{64k\,+\,56\}}_{k\ge 0}},\,{{\{256k,\,224\}}_{k\ge 0}},\,{{\{1024k\,+\,869\}}_{k\ge 0}},\,.\,.\,.$

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CMB-2015-044-3

Mots-clés : 11F20, 11E20, 11E25, Dedekind eta function, eta quotient, ternary quadratic form, vanishing of Fourier coefficients, product-to-sum formula

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