Exponential sums twisted by Fourier coefficients of automorphic cusp forms for SL(2, ℤ)

Abstract

Let f be a holomorphic cusp form of weight k for SL(2, ℤ) with Fourier coefficients λf(n). We study the sum ∑n>0λf(n)ϕ(n/X)e(αn), where [Formula: see text]. It is proved that the sum is rapidly decaying for α close to a rational number a/q where q2 < X1-ε. The main techniques used in this paper include Dirichlet's rational approximation of real numbers, a Voronoi summation formula for SL(2, ℤ) and the asymptotic expansion for Bessel functions.