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Vietnam Journal of Mathematics 39:3 (2011) 309-326

 

Higher Twists and Higher Gauss Sums

Siegfried Boecherer1 and Alexei A. Panchishkin2

1Kunzenhof 4B, 79117 Freiburg, Germany

 2Institut Fourier B.P.74, 38402 St.Martin d’Hères, France

 

 Abstract. We study two versions of higher twists of a Siegel modular form F viewed as a formal Fourier expansion

by a t-tuple ϕ of Dirichlet characters ϕ = (ϕ1, …, ϕt) modulo N, where S(t+1)n denotes the set of half-integral semi-positive symmetric matrices of size (t + 1)n × (t + 1)n. We show that both definitions are related via shift matrix operators and higher Gauss sums. We establish a spherical property of these higher Gauss sums (Proposition 2.1), and we prove automorphy properties of the higher twists (Proposition 3.1 and Proposition 3.2). These twists belong to tensor products of certain spaces of modular forms. This construction produces certain p-adic distributions with values in such tensor products applicable in various constructions of p-adic L-functions.

 

 

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