Bianchi Modular Forms over Imaginary Quadratic Fields with arbitrary class group

Abstract

Let $K$ be an imaginary quadratic field and let $\mathcal{O}_K$ be its ring of integers. For an integral ideal $\mathfrak{n}$ of $\mathcal{O}_K$, let $\Gamma_0({\mathfrak{n}})$ be the congruence subgroup of level ${\mathfrak{n}}$ consisting of matrices in $\operatorname{GL}_2{\mathcal{O}_K}$ that are upper triangular mod ${\mathfrak{n}}$. In this paper, we discuss techniques to compute the space of Bianchi modular forms of level $\Gamma_0({\mathfrak{n}})$ as a Hecke module in the case where $K$ has arbitrary class group. Our algorithms and computations extend and complement those carried out for fields of class number $1$, $2$, and $3$ by the first author, and by his students Bygott and Lingham in unpublished theses. We give details and several examples for $K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-17})$, whose class group is cyclic of order $4$, including a proof of modularity of an elliptic curve over this field. We also give an overview of the results obtained for a wide range of imaginary quadratic fields, which are tabulated in the L-functions and modular forms database (\href{https://www.lmfdb.org/}{LMFDB}).