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Publications and source records attributed to Yoichi Motohashi.
We consider a multiple arithmetical sum involving the Moebius function which despite its elementary appearance is in fact of a highly intriguing nature. We establish an asymptotic formula for the quadruple case that raises the first genuinely non-trivial situation. This is a rework of an old unpublished note of ours.
Albeit essential corrections are required both in his claim and in his argument, N.V. Kuznetsov observed in his Bombay article (*) of 1989 a highly interesting transformation formula for spectral sums of products of four values of modular Hecke L-functions. A complete proof of a corrected version of the formula was later supplied by the present author in 1991, which has, however, remained unpublished for more than a decade, except for a limited distribution. The aim of the present paper is to reproduce this proof of the author with some sophistications, retaining the original style as much as possible. (*) He claimed a resolution of the eighth moment problem of the Riemann zeta-function. But his argument is fatally incorrect. Our paper here concerns an essential ingredient in his argument, but we claim nothing about the eighth moment itself.
We prove the Kloosterman-Spectral sum formula for PSL(2,Z[i])\PSL(2,C), and apply it to derive an explicit spectral expansion for the fourth power moment of the Dedekind zeta function of the Gaussian number field. This sum formula allows the extension of the spectral theory of Kloosterman sums to all algebraic number fields.