Hybrid subconvexity and the partition function

Abstract

We give an upper bound for the error term in the Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher formula for the partition function. The main input is a new hybrid subconvexity bound for the central value $L(\tfrac 12,f\times (\tfrac{q}{\cdot}))$ in the $q$ and spectral parameter aspects, where $f$ is a Hecke-Maass cusp form for $\Gamma_0(N)$ and $q$ is a fundamental discriminant.