Oscillations of Fourier coefficients of $GL(m)$ Hecke-Maass forms and nonlinear exponential functions at primes

Abstract

Let $F(z)$ be a Hecke-Maass form for $SL(m,\mathbb{Z})$ and $A_F(n,1, \dots, 1)$ be the coefficients of $L$-function attached to $F.$ We study the cancellation of $A_F(n,1, \dots, 1)$ for twisted with a nonlinear exponential function at primes, namely the sum \begin{equation*} \sum_{n \leq N} \Lambda (n)A_F(n,1, \dots, 1)e ( \alpha n^\theta ), \end{equation*} where $0<\theta<2/m$. We also strengthen the corresponding previous results for holomorphic cusp forms for $SL(2,\mathbb{Z}),$ and improve the estimates of Ren-Ye on the resonance of exponential sums involving Fourier coefficients of a Maass form for $SL(m,\mathbb{Z})$.