Locally harmonic Maa{\ss} forms of positive even weight

Abstract

We twist Zagier's function $f_{k,D}$ by a sign function and a genus character. Assuming weight $0 < k \equiv 2 \pmod{4}$, and letting $D$ be a positive non-square discriminant, we prove that the obstruction to modularity caused by the sign function can be corrected obtaining a locally harmonic Maa\ss form or a local cusp form of the same weight. In addition, we provide an alternative representation of our new function in terms of a twisted trace of modular cycle integrals of a Poincar\'e series due to Petersson.