Scalar‐valued depth two Eichler–Shimura integrals of cusp forms

Abstract

Given cusp forms and of integral weight , the depth two holomorphic iterated Eichler–Shimura integral  is defined by , where is the Eichler integral of and are formal variables. We provide an explicit vector‐valued modular form whose top components are given by . We show that this vector‐valued modular form gives rise to a scalar‐valued iterated Eichler integral of depth two, denoted by , that can be seen as a higher depth generalization of the scalar‐valued Eichler integral of depth one. As an aside, our argument provides an alternative explanation of an orthogonality relation satisfied by period polynomials originally due to Paşol–Popa. We show that can be expressed in terms of sums of products of components of vector‐valued Eisenstein series with classical modular forms after multiplication with a suitable power of the discriminant modular form . This allows for effective computation of .