In analytic number theory, the Petersson trace formula is a kind of orthogonality relation between coefficients of a holomorphic modular form.
It is a specialization of the more general Kuznetsov trace formula.
In its simplest form the Petersson trace formula is as follows.
, the space of cusp forms of weight
is the Bessel function of the first kind.
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