The main purpose of this paper is to study the hybrid mean value of $\frac{L^{\text{'}}}{L}(1,\chi )$ and Gauss sums by using the estimates for trigonometric sums as well as the analytic method. An asymptotic formula for the hybrid mean value ${\sum }_{\chi \ne {\chi }_0}\left|\tau \left(\chi \right)\right||\frac{L^{\text{'}}}{L}{(1,\chi )|}^{2k}$ of $\frac{L^{\text{'}}}{L}$ and Gauss sums will be proved using analytic methods and estimates for trigonometric sums.

In the present paper, we obtain two new formulas of the Apostol-Bernoulli polynomials (see On the Lerch Zeta function. Pacific J. Math., 1 (1951), 161–167.), using the Gaussian hypergeometric functions and Hurwitz Zeta functions respectively, and give certain special cases and applications.

We investigate the average behavior of the $n$th normalized Fourier coefficients of the $j$th ($j\ge 2$ be any fixed integer) symmetric power $L$-function (i.e., $L(s,{\mathrm{sym}}^{j}f)$), attached to a primitive holomorphic cusp form $f$ of weight $k$ for the full modular group $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ over certain sequences of positive integers. Precisely, we prove an asymptotic formula with an error term for the sum $$S_j^{*}:=\sum _{a_1^2+a_2^2+a_3^2+a_4^2+a_5^2+a_6^2\le x(a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5,a_6)\in {\mathbb{Z}}^6}{\lambda }_{{\mathrm{sym}}^{j}f}^2(a_1^2+a_2^2+a_3^2+a_4^2+a_5^2+a_6^2),$$ where $x$ is sufficiently large, and $$L(s,{\mathrm{sym}}^{j}f):=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{{\lambda }_{{\mathrm{sym}}^{j}f}\left(n\right)}{n^s}.$$ When $j=2$, the error term which we obtain improves the earlier known result.

The Brun-Titchmarsh theorem shows that the number of primes which are less than x and congruent to a modulo q is less than (C+o(1))x/(ϕ(q)logx) for some value C depending on logx/logq. Different authors have provided different estimates for C in different ranges for logx/logq, all of which give C>2 when logx/logq is bounded. We show that one can take C=2 provided that logx/logq ≥ 8 and q is sufficiently large. Moreover, we also produce a lower bound of size $x/\left(q^{1/2}\varphi \left(q\right)\right)$ when logx/logq ≥ 8 and is bounded....