On nearly holomorphic Drinfeld modular forms for admissible coefficient rings
Oğuz Gezmiş, Sriram Chinthalagiri Venkata
TL;DR
The paper develops a function-field analogue of nearly holomorphic modular forms in the setting of Drinfeld modules over admissible coefficient rings. It constructs analytic notions as continuous, non-holomorphic functions on parts of the Drinfeld upper half-plane and provides a rigorous algebraic description via an extended de Rham sheaf on a compactified Drinfeld moduli space, with a precise comparison between the analytic and algebraic pictures. The authors prove transcendence results for CM-values of nearly holomorphic Drinfeld modular forms, establish a robust t-expansion framework at cusps through Tate-Drinfeld modules, and show an exact equivalence between spaces of nearly holomorphic forms and global sections of natural sheaves on the moduli space. This yields a complete algebraic description of these forms and recovers classical Drinfeld modular forms as a special case, advancing the understanding of function-field analogues of modular-analytic phenomena and their arithmetic properties.
Abstract
Let $X$ be a smooth projective and geometrically irreducible curve over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ with $q$ elements and $K$ be its function field. Let $\infty$ be a fixed closed point on $X$ and $A$ be the ring of functions regular away from $\infty$. In the present paper, by generalizing the previous work of Chen and the first author, we introduce the notion of nearly holomorphic Drinfeld modular forms for congruence subgroups of $GL_2(K)$ as continuous but non-holomorphic functions on a certain subdomain of the Drinfeld upper half plane. By extending the de Rham sheaf to a compactification $\overline{M_I^2}$ of the Drinfeld moduli space $M_I^2$, we also describe such forms algebraically as global sections of an explicitly described sheaf on $\overline{M_I^2}$ as well as construct a comparison isomorphism between analytic and algebraic description of them. Furthermore, we show the transcendence of special values of nearly holomorphic Drinfeld modular forms at CM points and relate them to the periods of CM Drinfeld $A$-modules.
