Let $A(n_1,n_2,\dots,n_{m-1})$ be the normalized Fourier coefficients of a Maass cusp form on $\textrm{GL}(m)$. In this paper, we study the cancellation of $A (n_1,n_2,\dots,n_{m-1})$ over Beatty sequences.

We study the topological $4$-dimensional surgery problem for a closed connected orientable topological $4$-manifold $X$ with vanishing second homotopy and $\pi_1(X)\cong A * F(r)$, where $A$ has one end and $F(r)$ is the free group of rank $r\ge 1$. Our result is related to a theorem of Krushkal and Lee, and depends on the validity of the Novikov conjecture for such fundamental groups.

We construct two non-isomorphic nuclear, stably finite, real rank zero $C^\ast$-algebras $E$ and $E'$ for which there is an isomorphism of ordered groups $\Theta\colon \bigoplus_{n \ge 0} K_\bullet(E;\ZZ/n) \to \bigoplus_{n \ge 0} K_\bullet(E';\ZZ/n)$ which is compatible with all the coefficient transformations. The $C^\ast$-algebras $E$ and $E'$ are not isomorphic since there is no $\Theta$ as above which is also compatible with the Bockstein operations. By tensoring with Cuntz's algebra $\OO_\infty$ one obtains a pair of non-isomorphic, real rank zero, purely infinite $C^\ast$-algebras with similar properties.

In this paper we prove: for any positive integers $a$ and $q$ with $(a,q) =1$, we have uniformly $$ \sum_{\substack{n \leq N \\ (n,q) = 1, \,n\on \equiv 1 (\mod q)}} \mu (n) e \left( \frac{a\on}{q} \right) \ll Nd (q) \left\{ \frac{\log^{\frac52} N}{q^{\frac12}} + \frac{q^{\frac15} \log^{\frac{13}5} N}{N^{\frac15}} \right\}. $$ This improves the previous bound obtained by D.~Hajela, A.~Pollington and B.~Smith~\cite{5}.