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Computing Classical Modular Forms

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Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation

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We discuss practical and some theoretical aspects of computing a database of classical modular forms in the L-functions and modular forms database (LMFDB).

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

    Alex J. Best

  2. School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Jonathan Bober

  3. The Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, Bristol, UK

    Jonathan Bober

  4. School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Andrew R. Booker & Min Lee

  5. Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edgar Costa, Maarten Derickx, David Roe & Andrew V. Sutherland

  6. Warwick Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    John E. Cremona

  7. Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Providence, RI, USA

    David Lowry-Duda

  8. Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

    John Voight

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Best, A.J. et al. (2021). Computing Classical Modular Forms. In: Balakrishnan, J.S., Elkies, N., Hassett, B., Poonen, B., Sutherland, A.V., Voight, J. (eds) Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation. Simons Symposia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80914-0_4

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