A note on signs of Fourier coefficients of two cusp forms

Abstract

Kohnen and Sengupta proved that two cusp forms of different integral weights with real algebraic Fourier coefficients have infinitely many Fourier coefficients of the same as well as of opposite sign, up to the action of a Galois automorphism. Recently Gun, Kohnen and Rath strengthen their result by comparing the simultaneous sign changes of Fourier coefficients of two cusp forms with arbitrary real Fourier coefficients. The simultaneous sign changes of Fourier coefficients of two same integral weight cusp forms follow from an earlier work of Ram Murty. In this note we compare the signs of the Fourier coefficients of two cusp forms simultaneously for the congruence subgroup Γ 0 (N ) where the coefficients lie in an arithmetic progression. Next we consider an analogous question for the particular sparse sequences of Fourier coefficients of normalized Hecke eigen cusp forms for the full modular group.