Exponential sums with Dirichlet coefficients of L-functions

Improving and extending recent results of the author, we conditionally estimate exponential sums with Dirichlet coefficients of L-functions, both over all integers and over all primes in an interval. In particular, we establish new conditional results on exponential sums with Hecke eigenvalues and squares of Hecke eigenvalues over primes. We employ these estimates to improve our recent result on squares of Hecke eigenvalues at Piatetski-Shapiro primes under the Riemann Hypothesis for symmetric square L-functions for Hecke eigenforms.