1. Introduction
Within the study of number theory, the Fourier coefficients derived from modular forms serve as pivotal and deeply intriguing mathematical entities. Let
be the
L-function attached with the primitive holomorphic cusp form
f of weight
k for the full modular group
. Let
be the
normalized Fourier coefficient of the Fourier expansion of
at the cusp
∞, that is,
Then for
, the
L-function attached to
is defined as
where
are Hecke eigenvalues of all Hecke operators
.
The associated
L-function is given by
which converges absolutely for
, where
and
are related to the normalized Fourier coefficients in the following way
From Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture,
where
is the divisor function. Studying the properties and average behaviors of various sums concerning
is an interesting problem. In number theory, classical problems are investigate mean value estimates of these Fourier coefficients and related problems with the corresponding automorphic
L-functions (for examples, see [2,5,6,21] etc.)
Let
. The
symmetric power
L-function associated with
f is defined as
for
, which can also be written as the following Dirichlet series
here
is real valued and multiplicative. In particular,
The
symmetric power
L-function twisted by
is defined as
for
. We will take
as the specific
or
in this paper.
Several authors have considered the average behaviors of the Fourier coefficients of the
symmetric power
L-function
. In [3], Fomenko showed that
and he further established that
in [4], where
. In addition, many scholars have studied related problem, see [8–10,12,18].
In [20], Zhai gave asymptotic formulas for
for
and
. Afterwards, Xu [19] and Liu [11] improved Zhai’s result. For results related of the Fourier coefficients of symmetric square
L-functions on a certain sequence of positive integers, see [15–17].
In 2023, Sharma and Sankaranarayanan considered some higher moments of these
normalized Fourier coefficients and established the asymptotic formulas
and
for a sufficiently large
x, where
and
are effective constants.
In this paper, we consider some higher moments of the Fourier coefficients of symmetric power L-functions on certain sequence. The main results are as follows.
Theorem 1.
Let and . For a sufficiently large x and any , we have
where is an effective constant defined as
is a Dirichlet series that converges uniformly, and absolutely in the half plane , and on , and is a character modulo 4.
Remark. When
, the
O-term in (
2) is
, which is better than the Theorem 1 in [15].
Theorem 2.
Let and . For a sufficiently large x and any , we have
where is an effective constant defined as
is a Dirichlet series that converges uniformly, and absolutely in the half plane , and on , and is a character modulo 4.
Remark. When
, the
O-term in (
3) is
, which is better than the Theorem 2 in [15].
The organization of this paper is as follows. In
Section 2, we introduce some preliminaries and also give some useful lemmas. In
Section 3 and
Section 4, we are give the proof of Theorems 1 and 2, respectively.
2. Some Preliminary Lemmas
In this section, we will establish some lemmas and preliminary results which are used to prove the theorems. Let allowing zeros, distinguishing signs and order. We are interested in the function .
Lemma 1.
For any positive integer n, we have
Moreover, is multiplicative function.
Proof. This is [16, Lemma 2.1]. □
We note that,
where
with
or 4.
We observe that
possesses a multiplicative property and is defined as follows:
We express
, where
represents a character modulo 4, defined by:
and
is the principal character modula 4.
Note that, .
Lemma 2.
For any , we have
uniformly for , and
uniformly for and .
Proof. The first result can be founded in [7], the second result can be founded in [1]. □
Lemma 3.
For any , we have
uniformly for , and
uniformly for and .
For a prime
p,
and
, we know that, the
Fourier coefficient of
symmetric power
L-function of
f can be written as
For
and
, Rankin-Selberg
L-function attached to
and
has the following equation
Since
is a multiplicative function and
, here
is the number of ways of expressing
n as a product of
factors, we can write the Euler product of
as
We can obtain (4) from (
1) and (5).
Moreover, according to Hecke
Also, observe that
Since
Lemma 4.
Suppose that f is a normalized primitive holomorphic cusp form of weight k for and is the normalized Fourier coefficients of the symmetric power L-function related to f. For , if
we have
where
here is a character modulo 4, and is a Dirichlet series which converges uniformly and absolutely in the half plane and on .
Proof. Note that
From the structure of
, we define the coefficients
as
which is absolutely convergent in
. We also note that, for
,
Observe that
for any small positive constant
.
We remark that
Let us write
and
From the above calculations we observe that
in
.
Take note that
where
. Thus,
So we have
Furthermore,
on
. □
Lemma 5.
Suppose that f is a normalized primitive holomorphic cusp form of weight k for and is the normalized Fourier coefficients of the symmetric power L-function related to f. For , if
we have
where
here is a character modulo 4, and is a Dirichlet series which converges uniformly and absolutely in the half plane and on .
Proof. The proof of this lemma is similar to the proof of Lemma 5. We omit the detail. □
Lemma 6.
Suppose that is a Dirichlet series with Euler product of degree , which is defined as
where are local parameters of at prime p. Suppose that:
(i) Its Euler product representation converges absolutely in the half-plane ,
(ii) It admits a meromorphic continuation to the entire complex plane ,
(iii) It satisfies a degree m functional equation of Riemann type.
Then we have
for , and we have
for .
Proof. This two results follow from Perelli [14] and Matsumoto [13]. □
3. Proof of Theorem 1
By applying Perron’s formula with
and
to
, we can get
Note that
where we used
So we have
Shifting the line of integration to
and applying Cauchy’s residue theorem, we can get there is only one simple pole at
, which is coming from factor
, contributes the residue
, where
is an effective constant depending on the values of various
L-functions appearing in
at
. To be more precise,
Thus we can get
By Lemmas 3, 4 and 6, we can obtain that the contribution of the horizontal line integrals (
and
) in absolute value is
By using Hölder’s inequality and Lemmas 2, 4, 6, we can get the contribution of left vertical line integral
in absolute value is
Therefore, we can get
Taking
, then we have
Thus we complete the proof of Theorem 1.
4. Proof of Theorem 2
By applying Perron’s formula with
and
to
, we can get
By (1), we have
Shifting the line of integration to
and applying Cauchy’s residue theorem, we can get there is only one simple pole at
, which is coming from factor
, contributes the residue
, where
is an effective constant depending on the values of various
L-functions appearing in
at
. To be more precise,
Thus we can get
By Lemmas 3, 4 and 6, we can obtain that the contribution of the horizontal line integrals (
and
) in absolute value is
By using Hölder’s inequality and Lemmas 2, 4, 6, we can get the contribution of left vertical line integral
in absolute value is
Therefore, we can get
Taking
, then we have
Thus we complete the proof of Theorem 1.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, J.H. and D. Z.; Methodology, D.Z.; Software, J.H.; Validation,J.H., F.Z. and D.Z.; Formal Analysis, J.H.; Investigation, J.H.; Resources, F.Z.; Data Curation, D.Z.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, J.H.; Writing – Review & Editing, F.Z.; Visualization, D.Z.; Supervision, D.Z.; Project Administration, D.Z.; Funding Acquisition, F.Z. and D.Z..
Funding
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 12171286, 12201214) and National Natural Science Foundation of China Mathematics Tianyuan Foundation (No. 12126322), Henan Province Science and Technology Key Projects (No. 242102520043).
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Data Availability Statement
Data is contained within the article.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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