On the asymptotics of the shifted sums of Hecke eigenvalue squares

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to obtain asymptotics of shifted sums of Hecke eigenvalue squares on average. We show that for $X^{\frac{2}{3}+\epsilon }<H<X^{1-\epsilon },$ there are constants $B_h$ such that $$\sum _{X\le n\le 2X}{\lambda }_f(n{)}^2{\lambda }_f(n+h{)}^2-B_{h}X=O_{f,A,\epsilon }(X(\log X{)}^{-A})$$ for all but $O_{f,A,\epsilon }(H(\log X{)}^{-3A})$ integers $h\in [1,H]$ where $\{{\lambda }_f(n){\}}_{n\ge 1}$ are normalized Hecke eigenvalues of a fixed holomorphic cusp form $f.$ Our method is based on the Hardy-Littlewood circle method. We divide the minor arcs into two parts $m_1$ and $m_2.$ In order to treat $m_2,$ we use the Hecke relations, a bound of Miller to apply some arguments from a paper of Matomäki, Radziwill and Tao. We apply Parseval's identity and Gallagher's lemma so as to treat $m_1.$

Accepted. To appear in Forum Mathematicum

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