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On Ramanujan and Dirichlet series with Euler products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

S. Raghavan
S. Raghavan
Affiliation:
Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research, Bombay 400 005, India
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In his unpublished manuscripts (referred to by Birch [1] as Fragment V, pp. 247–249), Ramanujan [3] gave a whole list of assertions about various (transforms of) modular forms possessing naturally associated Euler products, in more or less the spirit of his extremely beautiful paper entitled “On certain arithmetical functions” (in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 22 (1916)). It is simply amazing how Ramanujan could write down (with an ostensibly profound insight) a basis of eigenfunctions (of Hecke operators) whose associated Dirichlet series have Euler products, anticipating by two decades the famous work of Hecke and Petersson. That he had further realized, in the event of a modular form f not corresponding to an Euler product, the possibility of restoring the Euler product property to a suitable linear combination of modular forms of the same type as f, is evidently fantastic.

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Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , July 1984 , pp. 203 - 206
Copyright
Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1984

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