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Extending the approach of Iwaniec and Duke, we present strong uniform bounds for Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight cusp forms of level N. As an application, we consider a Waring-type problem with sums of mixed powers.
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I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Blomer for the many useful suggestions and remarks.
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Waibel, F. Fourier coefficients of half-integral weight cusp forms and Waring’s problem. Ramanujan J 47, 185–200 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-017-9934-1
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