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Level Stripping Of Genus 2 Siegel Modular Forms, Rodney Keaton Aug 2014

Level Stripping Of Genus 2 Siegel Modular Forms, Rodney Keaton

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In this Dissertation we consider stripping primes from the level of genus 2 cuspidal Siegel eigenforms. Specifically, given an eigenform of level Nlr which satisfies certain mild conditions, where l is a prime not dividing N, we construct an eigenform of level N which is congruent to our original form. To obtain our results, we use explicit constructions of Eisenstein series and theta functions to adapt ideas from a level stripping result on elliptic modular forms. Furthermore, we give applications of this result to Galois representations and provide evidence for an analog of Serre's conjecture in the genus 2 case.


Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves And Drinfeld Modules, Catherine Trentacoste May 2012

Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves And Drinfeld Modules, Catherine Trentacoste

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In this thesis we explore three different subfields in the area of number theory. The first topic we investigate involves modular forms, specifically nearly holomorphic eigenforms. In Chapter 3, we show the product of two nearly holomorphic eigenforms is an eigenform for only a finite list of examples. The second type of problem we analyze is related to the rank of elliptic curves. Specifically in Chapter 5 we give a graph theoretical approach to calculating the size of 3-Selmer groups for a given family of elliptic curves. By calculating the size of the 3-Selmer groups, we give an upper bound …