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THETA BLOCK FOURIER EXPANSIONS, BORCHERDS PRODUCTS AND A SEQUENCE OF NEWMAN AND SHANKS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2018

CRIS POOR
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA email [email protected]
JERRY SHURMAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Reed College, Portland, OR 97202, USA email [email protected]
DAVID S. YUEN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA email [email protected]
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Abstract

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The ‘Borcherds products everywhere’ construction [Gritsenko et al., ‘Borcherds products everywhere’, J. Number Theory148 (2015), 164–195] creates paramodular Borcherds products from certain theta blocks. We prove that the $q$-order of every such Borcherds product lies in a sequence $\{C_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}}\}$, depending only on the $q$-order $\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}$ of the theta block. Similarly, the $q$-order of the leading Fourier–Jacobi coefficient of every such Borcherds product lies in a sequence $\{A_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}}\}$, and this is the sequence $\{a_{n}\}$ from work of Newman and Shanks in connection with a family of series for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}$. Our proofs use a combinatorial formula giving the Fourier expansion of any theta block in terms of its germ.

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Research Article
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© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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