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In this paper we consider the action of Hecke operators T n (n ∈ IN), and their adjoint operators T* n , on Eisenstein series belonging to the group Γ0(N) and having integral weight k > 2 and arbitrary character χ modulo N. It is shown that the space ɛ k (x) spanned by these Eisenstein series splits up into a number of subspaces ɛ k (x,t)> where t is a divisor of N, each being invariant under the operators T n and T* n with (n, N) = 1. If x is a primitive character modulo N, this holds also for T n with (n, N) > 1, but this need not be true for general x modulo N. A basis of modular forms that are eigenfunctions for T n with (n, N) = 1 is constructed for each appropriate t and explicit evaluations of G L \T n are given for each Eisenstein series G L (L ∈ Γ(l)) and any positive integer n prime to N, or any n that is a prime divisor of N, the results being particularly simple when N is squarefree. The corresponding results for G L \T* n when (n, N) > 1 will be given in a subsequent paper.
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Rankin, R.A. (1990). Diagonalizing Eisenstein Series. I. In: Berndt, B.C., Diamond, H.G., Halberstam, H., Hildebrand, A. (eds) Analytic Number Theory. Progress in Mathematics, vol 85. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3464-7_28
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