Ternary quadratic forms and half-integral weight modular forms

Abstract

AbstractLet k be a positive integer such that k≡3 mod 4, and let N be a positive square-free integer. In this paper, we compute a basis for the two-dimensional subspace Sk/2(Γ0(4N),F) of half-integral weight modular forms associated, via the Shimura correspondence, to a newform F∈Sk−1(Γ0(N)), which satisfies $L(F,\frac {1}{2})\neq 0$. This is accomplished by using a result of Waldspurger, which allows one to produce a basis for the forms that correspond to a given F via local considerations, once a form in the Kohnen space has been determined.