RANKIN–COHEN TYPE DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS FOR SIEGEL MODULAR FORMS

Abstract

Let ℍn be the Siegel upper half space and let F and G be automorphic forms on ℍn of weights k and l, respectively. We give explicit examples of differential operators D acting on functions on ℍn × ℍn such that the restriction of [Formula: see text] to Z = Z1 = Z2 is again an automorphic form of weight k + l + v on ℍn. Since the elliptic case, i.e. n = 1, has already been studied some time ago by R. Rankin and H. Cohen we call such differential operators Rankin–Cohen type operators. We also discuss a generalisation of Rankin–Cohen type operators to vector valued differential operators.