Abstract
We prove bounds for twisted ergodic averages for horocycle flows of hyperbolic surfaces, both in the compact and in the non-compact finite area case. From these bounds we derive effective equidistribution results for horocycle maps. As an application of our main theorems in the compact case we further improve on a result of Venkatesh, recently already improved by Tanis and Vishe, on a sparse equidistribution problem for classical horocycle flows proposed by Shah and Margulis, and in the general non-compact, finite area case we prove bounds on Fourier coefficients of cusp forms which are comparable to the best known bounds of Good in the holomorphic case, and of Bernstein and Reznikov in the Maass (non-holomorphic) case. Our approach is based on Sobolev estimates for solutions of the cohomological equation and on scaling of invariant distributions for twisted horocycle flows.
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