The Second Moment of Sums of Hecke Eigenvalues II

Ned Carmichael

Published 2025-02-05Version 1

Let $f$ be a Hecke cusp form of weight $k$ for $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$, and let $(\lambda_f(n))_{n\geq 1}$ denote its (suitably normalised) sequence of Hecke eigenvalues. We compute the first and second moments of the sums $S(x,f)=\sum_{x\leq n\leq 2x} \lambda_f(n)$, on average over forms $f$ of large weight $k$. It is proved that when the length of the sums $x$ is larger than $k^2$, the second moment is roughly of size $x^{1/2}$. This is in sharp contrast to the regime where $x$ is slightly smaller than $k^2$, where it was shown in preceding work (part I) that the second moment is of size $x$.