We consider Weil sums of binomials of the form $W_{F,d}\left(a\right)={\sum }_{x\in F}\psi (x^d-ax)$, where F is a finite field, ψ: F → ℂ is the canonical additive character, $gcd(d,|F^{\times }\left|\right)=1$, and $a\in F^{\times }$. If we fix F and d, and examine the values of $W_{F,d}\left(a\right)$ as a runs through $F^{\times }$, we always obtain at least three distinct values unless d is degenerate (a power of the characteristic of F modulo $|F^{\times }|$). Choices of F and d for which we obtain only three values are quite rare and desirable in a wide variety of applications. We show that if F is a field of order 3ⁿ with n...

Let $f$ be a normalized primitive holomorphic cusp form of even integral weight for the full modular group $\Gamma =\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$. Denote by ${\lambda }_f\left(n\right)$ the $n$th normalized Fourier coefficient of $f$. We are interested in the average behaviour of the sum $$\sum _{a^2+b^2\le x}{\lambda }_f^j(a^2+b^2)$$ for $x\ge 1$, where $a,b\in \mathbb{Z}$ and $j\ge 9$ is any fixed positive integer. In a similar manner, we also establish analogous results for the normalized coefficients of Dirichlet expansions of associated symmetric power $L$-functions and Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions.

Suppose that $f$ is a primitive Hecke eigenform or a Mass cusp form for ${\Gamma }_0\left(N\right)$ with normalized eigenvalues ${\lambda }_f\left(n\right)$ and let $X>1$ be a real number. We consider the sum $${𝒮}_k\left(X\right):=\sum _{n<X}\sum _{n=n_1,n_2,...,n_k}{\lambda }_f\left(n_1\right){\lambda }_f\left(n_2\right)...{\lambda }_f\left(n_k\right)$$ and show that ${𝒮}_k\left(X\right){\ll }_{f,ϵ}{X}^{1-3/\left(2\right(k+3\left)\right)+ϵ}$ for every $k\ge 1$ and $ϵ>0$. The same problem was considered for the case $N=1$, that is for the full modular group in Lü (2012) and Kanemitsu et al. (2002). We consider the problem in a more general setting and obtain bounds which are better than those obtained by the classical result of Landau (1915) for $k\ge 5$. Since the result is valid...

We consider $L_G\left(s\right)$ to be the $L$-function attached to a particular automorphic form $G$ on $GL\left(6\right)$. We establish an upper bound for the mean square estimate on the critical line of Rankin-Selberg $L$-function $L_{G\times G}\left(s\right)$. As an application of this result, we give an asymptotic formula for the discrete sum of coefficients of $L_{G\times G}\left(s\right)$.

Let $f$, $g$ and $h$ be three distinct primitive holomorphic cusp forms of even integral weights $k_1$, $k_2$ and $k_3$ for the full modular group $\Gamma =\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$, respectively, and let ${\lambda }_f\left(n\right)$, ${\lambda }_g\left(n\right)$ and ${\lambda }_h\left(n\right)$ denote the $n$th normalized Fourier coefficients of $f$, $g$ and $h$, respectively. We consider the cancellations of sums related to arithmetic functions ${\lambda }_g\left(n\right)$, ${\lambda }_h\left(n\right)$ twisted by ${\lambda }_f\left(n\right)$ and establish the following results: $$\sum _{n\le x}{\lambda }_f\left(n\right){\lambda }_g{\left(n\right)}^i{\lambda }_h{\left(n\right)}^j{\ll }_{f,g,h,\epsilon }{x}^{1-1/2^{i+j}+\epsilon }$$ for any $\epsilon >0$, where $1\le i\le 2$, $j\ge 5$ are any fixed positive integers.

Let $f$ be a Hecke–Maass cusp form of eigenvalue $\lambda$ and square-free level $N$. Normalize the hyperbolic measure such that $\mathrm{vol}\left(Y_0\left(N\right)\right)=1$ and the form $f$ such that ${\parallel f\parallel }_2=1$. It is shown that ${\parallel f\parallel }_{\infty }{\ll }_{ϵ}{\lambda }^{\frac{5}{24}+ϵ}{N}^{\frac{1}{3}+ϵ}$ for all $ϵ>0$. This generalizes simultaneously the current best bounds in the eigenvalue and level aspects.

Let p be a prime, ℤₚ be the finite field in p elements, k be a positive integer, and A be the multiplicative subgroup of nonzero kth powers in ℤₚ. The goal of this paper is to determine, for a given positive integer s, a value tₛ such that if |A| ≫ tₛ then every element of ℤₚ is a sum of s kth powers. We obtain $t₄=p^{22/39+ϵ}$, $t₅=p^{15/29+ϵ}$ and for s ≥ 6, $tₛ=p^{(9s+45)/(29s+33)+ϵ}$. For s ≥ 24 further improvements are made, such as $t_{32}=p^{5/16+ϵ}$ and $t_{128}=p^{1/4}$.

Let $j\ge 2$ be a given integer. Let $H_k^{*}$ be the set of all normalized primitive holomorphic cusp forms of even integral weight $k\ge 2$ for the full modulo group $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$. For $f\in H_k^{*}$, denote by ${\lambda }_{{\mathrm{sym}}^{j}f}\left(n\right)$ the $n$th normalized Fourier coefficient of $j$th symmetric power $L$-function ($L(s,{\mathrm{sym}}^{j}f)$) attached to $f$. We are interested in the average behaviour of the sum $$\sum _{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{n=a_1^2+a_2^2+a_3^2+a_4^2+a_5^2+a_6^2\le x}{(a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5,a_6)\in {\mathbb{Z}}^6}}{\lambda }_{{\mathrm{sym}}^{j}f}^2\left(n\right),$$ where $x$ is sufficiently large, which improves the recent work of A. Sharma and A. Sankaranarayanan (2023).

For any positive integer $k\ge 3$, it is easy to prove that the $k$-polygonal numbers are $a_n\left(k\right)=(2n+n(n-1)(k-2))/2$. The main purpose of this paper is, using the properties of Gauss sums and Dedekind sums, the mean square value theorem of Dirichlet $L$-functions and the analytic methods, to study the computational problem of one kind mean value of Dedekind sums $S(a_n\left(k\right){\overline{a}}_m\left(k\right),p)$ for $k$-polygonal numbers with $1\le m,n\le p-1$, and give an interesting computational formula for it.

About Lehmer’s number, many people have studied its various properties, and obtained a series of interesting results. In this paper, we consider a generalized Lehmer problem: Let $p$ be a prime, and let $N(k;p)$ denote the number of all $1\le a_i\le p-1$ such that $a_1{a}_2\cdots a_k\equiv 1modp$ and $2\mid a_i+{\overline{a}}_i+1,$ $i=1,2,\cdots ,k$. The main purpose of this paper is using the analytic method, the estimate for character sums and trigonometric sums to study the asymptotic properties of the counting function $N(k;p),$ and give an interesting asymptotic formula...

For a real number $q>1$ and a positive integer $m$, let $Y_m\left(q\right):=\left\{{\sum }_{i=0}^n{ϵ}_i{q}^i:{ϵ}_i\in \left\{0,\pm 1,...,\pm m\right\},n=0,1,...\right\}$. In this paper, we show that $Y_m\left(q\right)$ is dense in $ℝ$ if and only if $q<m+1$ and $q$ is not a Pisot number. This completes several previous results and answers an open question raised by Erdös, Joó and Komornik [8].

Let $G$ be a finite group and $p$ a prime number. We prove that if $G$ is a finite group of order $\left|\mathrm{PSL}\right(2,p^2\left)\right|$ such that $G$ has an irreducible character of degree $p^2$ and we know that $G$ has no irreducible character $\theta$ such that $2p\mid \theta \left(1\right)$, then $G$ is isomorphic to $\mathrm{PSL}(2,p^2)$. As a consequence of our result we prove that $\mathrm{PSL}(2,p^2)$ is uniquely determined by the structure of its complex group algebra.