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Soo-bong Lim

Sungkyunkwan University · Mathematics

About the Lab

Professor Soo-bong Lim's research lab specializes in the theory of modular forms, harmonic Maass forms, and their applications to number theory and arithmetic geometry. The lab focuses on mock modular forms, vector-valued modular forms, Jacobi forms, and their L-functions, with particular emphasis on arithmetic properties, special values, and connections to automorphic forms. Recent work explores unimodal sequences, period polynomials, and cohomological interpretations of modular objects.

mock modular formsharmonic Maass formsJacobi formsL-functionsvector-valued modular forms

Research Overview

Papers
60
Total Citations
123
Papers (5y)
23
Primary Field
Mathematics

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
23total
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Citations per year (5y)
9total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|23 citations·2015
Mock modular forms and quantum modular forms
Dohoon Choi, Subong Lim, Robert C. Rhoades
SJR Q1Proceedings of the American Mathematical SocietyOA

In his last letter to Hardy, Ramanujan introduced mock theta functions. For each of his examples $f(q)$, Ramanujan claimed that there is a collection $\{ G_j\}$ of modular forms such that for each root of unity $\zeta$, there is a $j$ such that \[ \lim _{q \to \zeta }(f(q) - G_j(q)) = O(1).\] Moreover, Ramanujan claimed that this collection must have size larger than $1$. In his 2001 PhD thesis, Zwegers showed that the mock theta functions are the holomorphic parts of harmonic weak Maass forms.

Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
2
Article|19 citations·2015
Odd-balanced unimodal sequences and related functions: parity, mock modularity and quantum modularity
Byungchan Kim, Subong Lim, Jeremy Lovejoy
SJR Q1Proceedings of the American Mathematical SocietyOA

We define odd-balanced unimodal sequences and show that their generating function <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="script upper V left-parenthesis x comma q right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi class="MJX-tex-caligraphic" mathvariant="script">V</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>q</mml:mi> <mml:mo str

Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
3
Article|8 citations·2013
Eichler integrals and harmonic weak Maass forms
Dohoon Choi, Byungchan Kim, Subong Lim
SJR Q1Journal of Mathematical Analysis and ApplicationsOA
Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
4
Article|6 citations·2016
The Eichler–Shimura cohomology theorem for Jacobi forms
Dohoon Choi, Subong Lim
SJR Q1Monatshefte für Mathematik
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
5
Article|5 citations·2016
L -series for Vector-valued Modular Forms
Byungchan Kim, Subong Lim
SJR Q3Taiwanese Journal of MathematicsOA

Motivated by the recent works of Bringmann, Guerzhoy, Kent, and Ono [4] and Bringmann, Fricke, and Kent [3], we introduce $L$-series for vector-valued weakly holomorphic cusp forms, and mock modular period polynomials for vector-valued harmonic weak Maass forms. In particular, we will discuss an integral representation of this new $L$-series and the limiting behavior of special values. Moreover, we also give relations between mock modular periods and $L$-series for vector-valued harmonic weak Ma

Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
6
Article|4 citations·2014
The spaces of new forms for harmonic weak Maalss forms and their level raising properties modulo ℓ
Dohoon Choi, Subong Lim
SJR Q2The Ramanujan Journal
Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
7
Article|3 citations·2019
Pairs of eta-quotients with dual weights and their applications
Dohoon Choi, Byungchan Kim, Subong Lim
SJR Q1Advances in Mathematics
Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
8
Article|3 citations·2017
Hecke structures of weakly holomorphic modular forms and their algebraic properties
Dohoon Choi, Subong Lim
SJR Q2Journal of Number Theory
Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
9
Article|3 citations·2014
Cohomological relation between Jacobi forms and skew-holomorphic Jacobi forms
Dohoon Choi, Subong Lim
SJR Q2Mathematische Nachrichten

Eichler and Zagier developed a theory of Jacobi forms to understand and extend Maass' work on the Saito-Kurokawa conjecture. Later Skoruppa introduced skew-holomorphic Jacobi forms, which play an important role in understanding liftings of modular forms and Jacobi forms. In this paper, we explain a relation between Jacobi forms and skew-holomorphic Jacobi forms in terms of a group cohomology. More precisely, we introduce an isomorphism from the direct sum of the space of Jacobi cusp forms on and

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
10
Article|2 citations·2017
Hecke Bound of Vector-valued Modular Forms and its Relationship with Cuspidality
Seokho Jin, Jongryul Lim, Subong Lim
SJR Q3Taiwanese Journal of MathematicsOA

In this paper, we prove that if the Fourier coefficients of a vector-valued modular form satisfy the Hecke bound, then it is cuspidal. Furthermore, we obtain an analogous result with regard to Jacobi forms by applying an isomorphism between vector-valued modular forms and Jacobi forms. As an application, we prove a result on the growth of the number of representations of $m$ by a positive definite quadratic form $Q$.

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
11
Article|2 citations·2016
Series expansion of the period function and representations of Hecke operators
Dohoon Choi, Subong Lim, Tobias Mühlenbruch, Wissam Raji
SJR Q2Journal of Number Theory
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
12
Article|1 citations·2013
Sign-Periodicity of Traces of Singular Moduli
Dohoon Choi, Byungchan Kim, Subong Lim
SJR Q2MathematicsOA

Zagier proved that the generating functions of traces of singular values of Jm(z) are weight 3 2 weakly holomorphic modular forms. In this paper we prove that there is the sign-periodicity of traces of singular values of Jm(z).

Algebra and Number TheoryMathematics
13
Article|1 citations·2019
On sign changes of Jacobi forms
Seokho Jin, Subong Lim
SJR Q2Journal of Number Theory
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
14
Article|1 citations·2024
Non-vanishing of L -functions of Vector-valued Modular Forms
Subong Lim, Wissam Raji
SJR Q3Taiwanese Journal of MathematicsOA

Kohnen proved a non-vanishing result for $L$-functions associated to Hecke eigenforms of integral weights on the full group. In this paper, we show a non-vanishing result for the averages of $L$-functions associated with the orthogonal basis of the space of cusp forms of vector-valued modular forms of weight $k \in \frac{1}{2} \mathbb{Z}$ on the full group. We also show the existence of at least one basis element whose $L$-function does not vanish under certain conditions. As an application, we

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
15
Article|1 citations·2024
Differential operators on Jacobi forms of half integral weight
Seokho Jin, Subong Lim
SJR Q1Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics

Research Areas

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