Fourier Coefficients of Modular Forms of Half-Integral Weight in Arithmetic Progressions

Abstract

Abstract We study the probabilistic behavior of sums of Fourier coefficients in arithmetic progressions. We prove a result analogous to previous work of Fouvry–Ganguly–Kowalski–Michel and Kowalski–Ricotta in the context of half-integral weight holomorphic cusp forms and for prime power modulus. We actually show that these sums follow in a suitable range a mixed Gaussian distribution that comes from the asymptotic mixed distribution of Salié sums.