Siegel introduced generalised theta series to study representation numbers of quadratic forms. Given an integral lattice $L$ with quadratic form $q$, Siegel's degree $n$ theta series attached to $L$ has a Fourier expansion supported on $n$-dimensional lattices, with Fourier coefficients that tells us how many times $L$ represents any given $n$-dimensional lattice. Siegel proved that this theta series is a type of automorphic form.
In this talk we explore how the theory of automorphic forms, together with the theory of quadratic forms, helps us understand these representation numbers. We reveal arithmetic relations between ”average” representation numbers (where we average over a genus), and finally we give an explicit formula for these average representation numbers in terms of the Fourier coefficients of Siegel Eisenstein series. In the case that $n = 1$ (meaning we are looking at how often $L$ represents an integer) this yields explicit numerical formulas for these average representation numbers.[-]

Fourier coefficients of meromorphic Jacobi forms show up in, for example, the study of mock theta functions, quantum black holes and Kac-Wakimoto characters. In the case of positive index, it was previously shown that they are the holomorphic parts of vector-valued almost harmonic Maass forms. In this talk, we give an alternative characterization of these objects by applying the Maass lowering operator to the completions of the Fourier coefficients. Further, we'll also describe the relation of Fourier coefficients of negative index Jacobi forms to partial theta functions.[-]

In this talk we shall discuss our recent results on the Adams' conjecture on theta correspondence. In more words, given a representation of a classical group (in our case, symplectic or even orthogonal) belonging to a local Arthur packet, Adams predicts that, under certain assumptions, its theta lift (i.e. a corresponding irreducible representation of the other group in a dual reductive pair), provided it is non-zero, is also in A-packet which can be easily described in terms of the original one. Mœglin gave some partial results, specifically, in case when the original representation is square-integrable. We are able to extend her results to the case of so called Arthur packets with the discrete diagonal restriction. Moreover, it seems that Arthur packet encapsulates lot of additional information even in relation to theta correspondence, e.g. we can easily read of from it the first occurrence index for the given representation in it. Adams conjecture takes an unexpectedly elegant form for the representations in discrete diagonal restriction packets. Also, we are able to pinpoint exactly how low in theta towers we can go with this description of the theta lifts which belong to Arthur packets, we can also address some other related conjectures due to Mœglin. This is joint work with Petar Baki.[-]