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"The Dedekind eta function is a crucial example of a half-integral weight modular form, having weight $1/2$ and level 1".
It is very possible that I do not understand correctly the definition of modular forms of half-integer weight; I never studied them in detail. -- (My understanding is that it should have the same root of unity (of degree 4) in the functional equation as the theta-constant $\Theta(0,\tau)$, as defined by Neal Koblitz in his textbook; and the level $N$ should also be divisible by 4 for the transformation rule to be correctly defined.)
But, if I understand it correctly and my computation with the 24th root of unity $\epsilon(a,b,c,d)$ appearing in the functional equation of eta-function is correct, then the Dedekind eta-function $\eta(\tau)$ is of level $\Gamma(24)$, not of level one.
(If my computation is correct, $\epsilon$ restricts "in the correct way" to the group $\Gamma(24)$ ).
(Then, later, we can take $\eta(24 \tau)$ to change level to $\Gamma_0$ )
I would be thankful for your comments. -- Maxim Leyenson
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"The Dedekind eta function is a crucial example of a half-integral weight modular form, having weight$1/2$ and level 1".
It is very possible that I do not understand correctly the definition of modular forms of half-integer weight; I never studied them in detail. -- (My understanding is that it should have the same root of unity (of degree 4) in the functional equation as the theta-constant$\Theta(0,\tau)$ , as defined by Neal Koblitz in his textbook; and the level $N$ should also be divisible by 4 for the transformation rule to be correctly defined.)
But, if I understand it correctly and my computation with the 24th root of unity$\epsilon(a,b,c,d)$ appearing in the functional equation of eta-function is correct, then the Dedekind eta-function $\eta(\tau)$ is of level $\Gamma(24)$ , not of level one.
(If my computation is correct,$\epsilon$ restricts "in the correct way" to the group $\Gamma(24)$ ).
(Then, later, we can take$\eta(24 \tau)$ to change level to $\Gamma_0$ )
I would be thankful for your comments. -- Maxim Leyenson
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: