Borcherds Products for U(1,1)

Eric Hofmann

Published 2013-02-21, updated 2013-06-21Version 2

The Borcherds lift for indefinite unitary groups, previously constructed by the author, is examined here in greater detail for the special case of the group U(1,1). The inputs for the lifting in this case are weakly holomorphic modular forms of weight zero, which are lifted to meromorphic modular forms on the usual complex upper half plane transforming under an arithmetic subgroup of U(1,1). In this setting, we can completely describe the Weyl-chambers involved and explicitly calculate the attached Weyl-vectors, for a family of input functions with principle part $q^{-n}$. Since these are a basis for the input space, we obtain similarly explicit results for arbitrary input functions. The Heegner divisors in this case consist of CM-points, the CM-order of which is also determined.