Harmonic Maass forms of weight 1

Abstract

The object of this paper is to initiate a study of the Fourier coefficients of a weight $1$ harmonic Maass form and relate them to the complex Galois representation associated to a weight $1$ newform, which is the form’s image under a certain differential operator. In this paper, our focus will be on weight $1$ dihedral newforms of prime level $p\equiv 3(mod4)$. In this case we give properties of the Fourier coefficients that are similar to (and sometimes reduce to) cases of Stark’s conjectures on derivatives of $L$-functions. We also give a new modular interpretation of certain products of differences of singular moduli studied by Gross and Zagier. Finally, we provide some numerical evidence that the Fourier coefficients of a mock-modular form whose shadow is exotic are similarly related to the associated complex Galois representation.