Weakly holomorphic modular forms and rank two hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras

Kim, Henry; Lee, Kyu-Hwan; Zhang, Yichao

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-2015-06438-1

Weakly holomorphic modular forms and rank two hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras
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In this paper, we compute basis elements of certain spaces of weight $0$ weakly holomorphic modular forms and consider the integrality of Fourier coefficients of the modular forms. We use the results to construct automorphic correction of the rank $2$ hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras $\mathcal H(a)$, $a=4,5,6$, through Hilbert modular forms explicitly given by Borcherds lifts of the weakly holomorphic modular forms. We also compute asymptotics of the Fourier coefficients as they are related to root multiplicities of the rank $2$ hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras. This work is a continuation of an earlier work of the first and second authors, where automorphic correction was constructed for $\mathcal H(a)$, $a=3, 11, 66$.

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