Newforms of half-integral weight: the minus space of S_{k+1/2}(Γ_0(8M))

Abstract

We compute generators and relations for a certain $2$-adic Hecke algebra of level $8$ associated with the double cover of ${\mathrm{SL}}_2$ and a $2$-adic Hecke algebra of level $4$ associated with ${\mathrm{PGL}}_2$. We show that these two Hecke algebras are isomorphic as expected from the Shimura correspondence. We use the $2$-adic generators to define classical Hecke operators on the space of holomorphic modular forms of weight $k+1/2$ and level $8M$ where $M$ is odd and square-free. Using these operators and our previous results on half-integral weight forms of level $4M$ we define a subspace of the space of half-integral weight forms as a common $-1$ eigenspace of certain Hecke operators. Using the relations and a result of Ueda we show that this subspace which we call the minus space is isomorphic as a Hecke module under the Ueda correspondence to the space of new forms of weight $2k$ and level $4M$. We observe that the forms in the minus space satisfy a Fourier coefficient condition that gives the complement of the plus space but does not define the minus space.

To appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics