The Shifted Convolution of Divisor Functions

Abstract

We prove an asymptotic formula for the shifted convolution of the divisor functions $d_3(n)$ and $d(n)$, which is uniform in the shift parameter and which has a power-saving error term. The method is also applied to give analogous estimates for the shifted convolution of $d_3(n)$ and Fourier coefficents of holomorphic cusp forms. These asymptotics improve previous results obtained by several different authors.