Constructions of vector-valued modular forms of rank four and level one

Abstract

This paper studies modular forms of rank four and level one. There are two possibilities for the isomorphism type of the space of modular forms that can arise from an irreducible representation of the modular group of rank four, and we describe when each case occurs for general choices of exponents for the [Formula: see text]-matrix. In the remaining sections we describe how to write down the corresponding differential equations satisfied by minimal weight forms, and how to use these minimal weight forms to describe the entire graded module of holomorphic modular forms. Unfortunately, the differential equations that arise can only be solved recursively in general. We conclude the paper by studying the cases of tensor products of two-dimensional representations, symmetric cubes of two-dimensional representations, and inductions of two-dimensional representations of the subgroup of the modular group of index two. In these cases, the differential equations satisfied by minimal weight forms can be solved exactly.