On sums of Fourier coefficients of cusp forms twisted with additive characters

Abstract

When $a_n$ is the $n$'th coefficient of some holomorphic cusp form, we prove a variety of Omega results for the twisted sum $\sum_{n\le x}a_ne^{2\pi in\alpha}$ and discuss their applications to the Ramanujan $\tau$-function and sums of $a_n$ over arithmetic progressions.