Atkin's 13-adic congruences for normalized coefficients of the j-function

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Let j(z)=q−1+744+196884q+⋯j(z)=q^{-1}+744+196884q+\cdots, write j=∑ncn(j)qnj=\sum_n c_n(j)q^n, and for a positive integer mm with cpm(j)≠0c_{p^m}(j)\neq0 define

tm(j,n)=cnpm(j)cpm(j).t_m(j,n)=\frac{c_{np^m}(j)}{c_{p^m}(j)}.

Atkin's conjecture. For any prime p≠13p\neq13 such that cpm(j)≠0c_{p^m}(j)\neq0 for all m≥1m\geq1,

tm(j,np)−tm(j,n)tm(j,p)+p−1tm(j,n/p)≡0(mod13m),∀m,n≥1,t_m(j,np)-t_m(j,n)t_m(j,p)+p^{-1}t_m(j,n/p)\equiv0\pmod{13^m},\qquad \forall m,n\geq1,

and

tm(j,13n)−tm(j,n)tm(j,13)≡0(mod13m),∀m,n≥1.t_m(j,13n)-t_m(j,n)t_m(j,13)\equiv0\pmod{13^m},\qquad \forall m,n\geq1.

The source states that this conjecture was proved by Koike and Katz using the convergence of repeated applications of U13U_{13} to a single 1313-adic Hecke eigenform. Related conjectures for primes p≤23p\leq23 were also established, so this claim is solved.

References

Primary source

Wen-Ching Winnie Li and Ling Long, “Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer congruences and noncongruence modular forms”, arXiv:1303.6228 (2014).

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