Pullback formula for vector-valued Hermitian modular forms on $\mathrm{U}_{n,n}$
Nobuki Takeda
TL;DR
This work derives a pullback formula for vector-valued Hermitian modular forms on $\mathrm{U}_n$ over CM fields by combining Shimura's finite-place arithmeticity with Kozima's infinite-place differential-operator framework. It develops explicit derivative formulas and pluriharmonic-determined differential operators that preserve automorphy (Condition (A)) via Howe duality, enabling a representation-theoretic treatment of pullbacks. The main result expresses the Petersson pairing of a differentiated Hermitian Eisenstein series with a Hecke eigenform as a product of local $L$-factors and a global pullback of the eigenform, with archimedean and finite-level contributions carefully isolated (via double coset decompositions and local computations). This yields a robust tool for studying Fourier coefficients, automorphic properties, and congruences of vector-valued Hermitian modular forms, with concrete local factors computed at good/bad non-archimedean places and archimedean places.
Abstract
We give the pullback formula for vector-valued Hermitian modular forms on CM field. We also give the equivalent condition for a differential operator on Hermitian modular forms to preserve the automorphic properties.
