p-Adic coupling of mock modular forms and shadows

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Apr 6;107(14):6169-74. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1001355107. Epub 2010 Mar 22.

Abstract

A "mock modular form" is the holomorphic part of a harmonic Maass form f. The nonholomorphic part of f is a period integral of its "shadow," a cusp form g. A direct method for relating the coefficients of shadows and mock modular forms is not known. We solve these problems when the shadow is an integer weight newform. Our solution is p-adic, and it relies on our definition of an algebraic "regularized mock modular form." As an application, we consider the modular solution to the cubic "arithmetic-geometric mean."