The Ramanujan Journal

, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp 261–272 | Cite as

On modular solutions of certain meromorphic modular differential equations

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Abstract

Kaneko and Koike gave the “extremal” quasimodular forms of depth 1 for PSL2(ℤ) and modular differential equations they satisfy. In this paper, we study modular solutions of their modular differential equations.

Keywords

Modular/quasimodular form Differential equations 

Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)

11F03 11F11 

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Graduate School of MathematicsKyushu UniversityNishi-ku, FukuokaJapan

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