P. Edward Herman
Abstract
In this paper, we obtain a subconvexity result for the Rankin-Selberg L-function in both levels. The new feature in this result is applying an amplification method of Duke-Friedlander-Iwaniec to a double Petersson-Kuznetsov trace formula. As the trace formula ranges over all the spectrum, this subconvexity result is unconditional of which Hecke eigenforms are chosen in the Rankin-Selberg L-function.