The average behaviour of Hecke eigenvalues over certain sparse sequence of positive integers.

Let j ≥ 2 be a given integer. Let f be a normalized primitive holomorphic cusp form of even integral weight for the full modular group Γ = S L (2 , Z) . Denote by λ sym j f (n) the nth normalized coefficient of the Dirichlet expansion of the jth symmetric power L-function L (sym j f , s) attached to f. In this paper, we are interested in the average behaviour of the following sum ∑ a 2 + b 2 + c 2 + d 2 ≤ x (a , b , c , d) ∈ Z 4 λ sym j f 2 (a 2 + b 2 + c 2 + d 2) , where x is sufficiently large, which improves and generalizes the recent work of Sharma and Sankaranarayanan [52]. By analogy, we also consider the analogous results for higher moments of normalized Fourier coefficients and the second moment of normalized coefficients of two symmetric power L-functions attached to two distinct cusp forms of the same sequence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]