The weight of half-integral weight modular forms with few non-vanishing coefficients mod l
Suppose that f is an elliptic modular form with integral coefficients. Sturm obtained bounds for a nonnegative integer n such that every Fourier coefficient of f vanishes modulo a prime p if the first n Fourier coefficients of f are zero modulo p. In the present note, we study analogues of Sturm's bounds for Siegel modular forms of genus 2. As an application, we study congruences involving an analogue of Atkin's U(p)-operator for the Fourier coefficients of Siegel modular forms of genus 2.
We employ recent results on Jacobi forms to investigate congruences and filtrations of Siegel modular forms of degree . In particular, we determine when an analog of Atkin’s -operator applied to a Siegel modular form of degree is nonzero modulo a prime . Furthermore, we discuss explicit examples to illustrate our results.
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