Recurrence Relation
Any holomorphic modular form for the modular group can be written as a polynomial in and . Specifically, the higher order 's can be written in terms of and through a recurrence relation. Let . Then the satisfy the relation
for all . Here, is the binomial coefficient and and .
The occur in the series expansion for the Weierstrass's elliptic functions:
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