On fourth and higher moments of short exponential sums related to cusp forms (Q2004937)

In the paper under review, the authors obtain upper bounds for the fourth and the higher moments of short exponential sums of the form \[ \sum_{M\leq n\leq M+\Delta}a(n)e(n\alpha), \] with \(M\geq 1\), \(\Delta\in[1,M]\) and \(\alpha\in\mathbb{R}\), involving Fourier coefficients \(a(n)\) of cusp forms. In the case of the fourth moment, their results are exactly what is conjectured to be best possible. The authors specifically study the case of a rational \(\alpha\) with a small denominator.