Bianchi Modular Forms over Class Number 4 Fields

Abstract: Let $F$ be an imaginary quadratic field, and let $\mathcal{O}_F$ be its ring of integers. For any ideal $\mathfrak{n} \subset \mathcal{O}_F$, let $\Gamma_0(\mathfrak{n})$ be the congruence subgroup of level $\mathfrak{n}$ consisting of matrices that are upper triangular mod $\mathfrak{n}$. In this paper, we develop techniques to compute spaces of Bianchi modular forms of level $\Gamma_0(\mathfrak{n})$ as a Hecke module in the case where $F$ has cyclic class group of order $4$. This represents the first attempt at such computations and complements work for smaller class numbers done by Cremona and his students Bygott, Lingham \cite{bygott,lingham}. We implement the algorithms for $F = \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-17})$. In our results we observe a variety of phenomena.