-This leads us to consider all curves \(E_\Lambda\) simultaneously---or, equivalently, to consider modular forms. The lattice \(\Lambda\) can be put into a standard form, by picking a basis and scaling it so that one vector lies at \(1\) and the other vector lies in the upper half-plane, \(\h\). This gives a cover \[\h \to \moduli{ell} \times \Spec \C\] which is well-behaved (i.e., unramified) away from the special points \(\mathrm i\) and \(\mathrm e^{2 \pi i / 6}\). A \index{modular form}\textit{complex modular form of weight \(n\)} is an analytic function \(\h \to \C\) which satisfies a certain decay condition and which is quasi-periodic for the action of \(SL_2(\Z)\), i.e.,\footnote{That is, for the action of change of basis vectors.} \[f\left(M; \frac{a \tau + b}{c \tau + d} \right) = (c \tau + d)^n f(M; \tau).\]
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