On modular forms of rational weight satisfying the canonical second-order linear modular differential equation
Abstract
In this paper, we completely classify the rational weights k for which the Kaneko-Zagier (KZ) differential equation admits a fundamental system of solutions consisting of modular forms for a principal congruence subgroup Γ(N). By transforming the KZ equation into a hypergeometric differential equation, we study the global analytic continuation of its solutions, adopting an approach analogous to Stiller's work on Picard-Fuchs equations. We explicitly construct the monodromy representation matrices corresponding to the elements of the principal congruence subgroups and completely determine the algebraic conditions under which these connection matrices commute. Leveraging these stringent commutativity constraints, we prove that the weights k yielding modular solutions are strictly limited to k ≡ 1/2, 7/2, 1, 2, 3 pmod6 and k = (6n+1)/5, thereby demonstrating that no modular solutions exist beyond those previously discovered by Kaneko and Koike. Furthermore, the commutative algebras generated by these connection matrices reveal a profound analogy with commuting transfer matrices in quantum integrable systems.
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BibTeX
@misc{sakai2026modular,
title = {{On modular forms of rational weight satisfying the canonical second-order linear modular differential equation}},
author = {Yuichi Sakai and Hiroyuki Tsutsumi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.23383},
eprint = {2605.23383},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23383},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - On modular forms of rational weight satisfying the canonical second-order linear modular differential equation
AU - Yuichi Sakai
AU - Hiroyuki Tsutsumi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23383
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23383
AB - In this paper, we completely classify the rational weights k for which the Kaneko-Zagier (KZ) differential equation admits a fundamental system of solutions consisting of modular forms for a principal congruence subgroup Γ(N). By transforming the KZ equation into a hypergeometric differential equation, we study the global analytic continuation of its solutions, adopting an approach analogous to Stiller's work on Picard-Fuchs equations. We explicitly construct the monodromy representation matrices corresponding to the elements of the principal congruence subgroups and completely determine the algebraic conditions under which these connection matrices commute. Leveraging these stringent commutativity constraints, we prove that the weights k yielding modular solutions are strictly limited to k ≡ 1/2, 7/2, 1, 2, 3 pmod6 and k = (6n+1)/5, thereby demonstrating that no modular solutions exist beyond those previously discovered by Kaneko and Koike. Furthermore, the commutative algebras generated by these connection matrices reveal a profound analogy with commuting transfer matrices in quantum integrable systems.
ER -