On exponential sums involving the Ramanujan function

DOI10.1007/BF02837820MaRDI QIDQ1111596zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Matti Jutila

Publication date 1987

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02837820

zbMATH Keywords

approximate functional equationcusp formexponential sumsFourier coefficientsRamanujan \(\tau\)-function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Estimates on character sums (11L40)

Review text

Let \(\tau\) (n) be the Ramanujan \(\tau\)-function, i.e. \(x\prod^{\infty}_{m=1}(1-x^ m)^{24}=\sum^{\infty}_{n=1}\tau (n)x^ n.\) This paper establishes the following estimate: \[ (*)\quad \sum_{n\leq x}\tau (n) e(n\alpha)\quad \ll \quad x^ 6. \] Here \(e(x)=e^{2\pi ix}\) and the implied constant is independent of \(\alpha\in [0,1].\) This result is best possible, as may be easily seen from \textit{R. A. Rankin}'s result in [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 35, 357-372 (1939; Zbl 0021.39202)] that \(\sum_{n\leq x}\tau^ 2(n)=x^{12}+O(x^{12- 2/5}).\) \textit{J. R. Wilton} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 25, 121-129 (1929; JFM 55.0709.02)] showed an estimate like (*) with \(x^ 6\) replaced by \(x^ 6 \log x\). \textit{L. A. Parson} and the reviewer [Mathematika 29, 270-277 (1982; Zbl 0512.10029)] suggested that (*) might well be true and proved a simple version with \(\alpha =p/q\), an exponent less than 6, but the constant approaching \(\infty\) with q. Such a result is also given in the author's paper [``Lectures on a method in the theory of exponential sums (Lectures on Mathematics and Physics, Vol. 80, Bombay 1987)]. The proofs in the present paper are similar to those given by the author in [J. Reine Angew. Math. 355, 173-190 (1985; Zbl 0542.10032)] for the corresponding exponential sums involving the divisor function d(n). At a crucial stage in the estimates, a very beautiful approximate functional equation for certain differences of the basic exponential sums is given. The result (*) also holds, mutatis mutandis, for Fourier coefficients of any (analytic) cusp form.

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