A truncated Siegel-Weil formula and Borcherds forms

Abstract

In this paper we use the regularized Siegel-Weil formula of Gan-Qiu-Takeda to obtain an expression of the integral of the theta function over the truncated modular curve. We apply this result to express the integral over the truncated modular curve of the logarithm of the Borcherds form and we describe explicitly its asymptotic behaviour, and in particular the convergent and divergent contributions. The result provides a complement to the work of Kudla on integrals of Borcherds forms in a limiting case which falls out the range of applications.