Computations of Galois representations associated to modular forms of level one

We propose an improved algorithm for computing mod ℓ Galois representations associated to a cusp form of f level one. The proposed method allows us to explicitly compute the case with ℓ = 29 and f of weight k = 16, and the cases with ℓ = 31 and f of weight k = 12, 20, 22. All the results are rigorously proved to be correct. As an example, we will compute the values modulo of Ramanujan's tau function at some huge primes up to a sign. Also we will give an improved uper bound on Lehmer's conjecture for Ramanujan's tau function. Copyright © 2007-2014 by IMPAN. All rights reserved.