On general divisor problems involving Hecke eigenvalues (Q5917862)

The author improves results of Fomenko, resp. Kanemitsu, Sankaranarayanan and Tanigawa, which concern estimates of sums over Hecke eigenvalues. In more detail: The set of primitive holomorphic forms of even weight \(k\geq 2\) for \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb Z)\) consists of the eigenfunctions \(f\) of all Hecke operators \(T_n\) with eigenvalues \(\lambda_f(n)\) (real-valued and multiplicative). The author considers the Hecke resp. Rankin-Selberg \(L\)-functions \[ L(s,f)= \sum_1^\infty \frac{\lambda_f(n)}{n^s} \quad \text{resp.}\quad L(s,f\times f) = \zeta(2s) \cdot \sum_1^\infty \frac{\lambda_f (n)^2}{n^s}=\sum_1^\infty \frac{\lambda_{f\times f}(n)}{n^s}, \] and the coefficients of \(L(s,f)^k\) and \(L(s,f\times f)^k\), \[ \lambda_{k,f}(n) = \sum_{n_1\,n_2,\cdots n_k=n} \lambda_f(n_1)\cdots \lambda_f(n_k), \] \[ \lambda_{k,f\times f}(n) = \sum_{n_1\,n_2,\cdots n_k=n} \lambda_{f\times f}(n_1)\cdots \lambda_{f\times f}(n_k). \] The author is interested in estimating generalized divisor sums \[ S_k(x) = \sum_{n\leq x} \lambda_{k,f}(n) \text{ and }\, U_k(x) = \sum_{n\leq x} \lambda_{k,f\times f}(n) \] from above, improving on results of Hafner and Ivić, Rankin, Wu, Rankin and Selberg, and of the authors mentioned at the beginning. For example, \[ S_3(x) \ll_{f,\,\varepsilon} x^{\frac 35 + \varepsilon}, \qquad S_k(x) \ll_{f,\,\varepsilon} x^{1 - \frac 3{2k} + \varepsilon} \text{ if }k\geq 4, \] and similar estimates for \(U_k(x)\) in the ranges \(2\leq k\leq 6\), \(6\leq k \leq 11\), and \(k\geq 12\). ``To prove Theorem 1.1, we apply the individual and averaged subconvexity bounds for the Hecke \(L\)-function due to \textit{A. Good} [Mathematika 29, 278--295 (1982; Zbl 0497.10016)], \textit{A. Ivić} [Proceedings of the Amalfi conference on analytic number theory, Salerno 1989, 231--246 (1992; Zbl 0787.11035)], and \textit{M. Jutila} [Lectures on a method in the theory of exponential sums. Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag (1987; Zbl 0671.10031)], respectively.''