Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
Let Γ be a fuchsian group of the first kind not containing the element . We shall denote by d0 the number of linearly independent automorphic forms of weight 1 for Γ. It would be interesting to have a certain formula for d0. But, Hejhal said in his Lecture Notes 548, it is impossible to calculate d0 using only the basic algebraic properties of Γ. On the other hand, Serre has given such a formula of d0 recently in a paper delivered at the Durham symposium ([7]). His formula is closely connected with 2-dimensional Galois representations.