On the Spezialschar of Maass
arXiv:0801.1804
Abstract
Let be the space of Siegel modular forms of degree and even weight . In this paper firstly a certain subspace the Spezialschar of is introduced. In the setting of the Siegel three-fold it is proven that this Spezialschar is the Maass Spezialschar. Secondly an embedding of into a direct sum is given. This leads to a basic characterization of the Spezialschar property. The results of this paper are directly related to the non-vanishing of certain special values of L-functions related to the Gross-Prasad conjecture. This is illustrated by a significant example in the paper.