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Maass wave forms, quantum modular forms and Hecke operators

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We prove that Cohen’s Maass wave form and Li–Ngo–Rhoades’ Maass wave form are Hecke eigenforms with respect to certain Hecke operators. As a corollary, we find new identities of the pth coefficients of these Maass wave forms in terms of pth root of unity.

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This is part of the author’s M.S. thesis paper. The author is grateful to his advisor Y. Choie for her helpful advice. The author is also grateful to J. Lovejoy for his comments via email.

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Lee, S. Maass wave forms, quantum modular forms and Hecke operators. Res Math Sci 6, 7 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40687-018-0170-0

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