Strong orthogonality between the Möbius function, additive characters, and Fourier coefficients of cusp forms

Étienne Fouvry, Satadal Ganguly

Published 2013-01-23Version 1

Let $\nu_{f}(n)$ be the $n$-th nomalized Fourier coefficient of a Hecke--Maass cusp form $f$ for ${\rm SL}(2,\Z)$ and let $\alpha$ be a real number. We prove strong oscillations of the argument of $\nu_{f}(n)\mu (n) \exp (2\pi i n \alpha)$ as $n$ takes consecutive integral values.