Triple Correlation Sums of Coefficients of Cusp Forms

Abstract

We produce nontrivial asymptotic estimates for shifted sums of the form $\sum a(h)b(m)c(2m-h)$, in which $a(n),b(n),c(n)$ are un-normalized Fourier coefficients of holomorphic cusp forms. These results are unconditional, but we demonstrate how to strengthen them under the Riemann Hypothesis. As an application, we show that there are infinitely many three term arithmetic progressions $n-h, n, n+h$ such that $a(n-h)a(n)a(n+h) \neq 0$.