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We use Borcherds products to give a new construction of the weight $3$ paramodular nonlift eigenform $f_N$ for levels $N = 61, 73, 79$. We classify the congruences of $f_N$ to Gritsenko lifts. We provide techniques that compute eigenvalues to support future modularity applications. Our method does not compute Hecke eigenvalues from Fourier coefficients but instead uses elliptic modular forms, specifically the restrictions of Gritsenko lifts and their images under the slash operator to modular curves.

Generalizing the method of Faltings-Serre, we rigorously verify that certain abelian surfaces without extra endomorphisms are paramodular. To compute the required Hecke eigenvalues, we develop a method of specialization of Siegel paramodular forms to modular curves. In the appendix, Serre proves a result extending his work on the reduction of G-invariant bilinear forms modulo primes to the case of G-covariant forms., Comment: 49 pages; proof of Lemma 4.3.6 simplified, still with the new appendix by Serre

We complete the construction of the nonlift weight two cusp paramodular Hecke eigenforms for prime levels N<600, which arise in conformance with the paramodular conjecture of Brumer and Kramer.

We present an algorithm to compute all Borcherds product paramodular cusp forms of a specified weight and level, describing its implementation in some detail and giving examples of its use., Comment: 42 pages, a few typos corrected

We compute the space $S_2(K(N))$ of weight $2$ Siegel paramodular cusp forms of squarefree level $N<300$. In conformance with the paramodular conjecture of A. Brumer and K. Kramer, the space is only the additive (Gritsenko) lift space of the Jacobi cusp form space $J_{2,N}^{\text{cusp}}$ except for $N=249,295$, when it further contains one nonlift newform. For these two values of $N$, the Hasse-Weil $p$-Euler factors of a relevant abelian surface match the spin $p$-Euler factors of the nonlift newform for the first two primes $p\nmid N$.

We define an algebraic set in $23$~dimensional projective space whose $\mathbb Q$-rational points correspond to meromorphic, antisymmetric, paramodular Borcherds products. We know two lines inside this algebraic set. Some rational points on these lines give holomorphic Borcherds products and thus construct examples of Siegel modular forms on degree two paramodular groups. Weight $3$ examples provide antisymmetric canonical differential forms on Siegel modular threefolds. Weight $2$ is the minimal weight and these examples, via the Paramodular Conjecture, give evidence for the modularity of some rank one abelian surfaces defined over $\mathbb Q$.

We compute Hecke eigenform bases of spaces of level one, degree~three Siegel modular forms and 2-Euler factors of the eigenforms through weight 22. Our method uses the Fourier coefficients of Siegel Eisenstein series, which are fully known and computationally tractable by the work of H. Katsurada; we also use P. Garrett's decomposition of the pullback of the Eisenstein series through the Witt map. Our results support I. Miyawaki's conjectural lift, and they give examples of eigenforms that are congruence neighbors.

We prove the Borcherds Products Everywhere Theorem, Theorem 6.6, that constructs holomorphic Borcherds Products from certain Jacobi forms that are theta blocks without theta denominator. The proof uses generalized valuations from formal series to partially ordered abelian semigroups of closed convex sets. We present nine infinite families of paramodular Borcherds Products that are simultaneously Gritsenko lifts. This is the first appearance of infinite families with this property in the literature., Comment: 35 pages

The Fourier Jacobi expansions of paramodular forms are characterized from among all formal series of Jacobi forms by two conditions on the Fourier coeffcients of the Jacobi forms: a growth condition and a set of linear relations. Examples, both theoretical and computational, indicate that the growth condition may be superfluous.

We classify Siegel modular cusp forms of weight two for the paramodular group K(p) for primes p< 600. We find that weight two Hecke eigenforms beyond the Gritsenko lifts correspond to certain abelian varieties defined over the rationals of conductor p. The arithmetic classification is in a companion article by A. Brumer and K. Kramer. The Paramodular Conjecture, supported by these computations and consistent with the Langlands philosophy and the work of H. Yoshida, is a partial extension to degree 2 of the Shimura-Taniyama Conjecture. These nonlift Hecke eigenforms share Euler factors with the corresponding abelian variety $A$ and satisfy congruences modulo \ell with Gritsenko lifts, whenever $A$ has rational \ell-torsion.

We give a hyperelliptic formulation of the Ansatz of D'Hoker and Phong. We give an explicit family of binary invariants, one for each genus, that satisfies this hyperelliptic Ansatz. We also prove that this is the unique family of weight eight binary forms over the theta group on the hyperelliptic locus that satisfies this Ansatz. Futhermore, we prove that this solution may also be obtained by applying Thomae's map to multivalued Siegel modular forms of Grushevsky and making certain choices of roots.

Let n >= 2 be an integer and consider the set T_n of n by n permutation matrices pi for which pi_{ij}=0 for j>=i+2. In this paper we study the convex hull of T_n, which we denote by P_n. P_n is a polytope of dimension binom{n}{2}. Our main purpose is to provide evidence for the following conjecture concerning its volume. Let v_n denote the minimum volume of a simplex with vertices in the affine lattice spanned by T_n. Then the volume of P_n is v_n times the product for i varying from 0 to n-2 of frac{1}{i+1} binom{2i}{i}. That is, P_n is the product of v_n and the first n-1 Catalan numbers. We also give a related result on the Ehrhart polynomial of P_n., Comment: this version corrects a small number of typographical errors in the original