Metaplectic tensor products for irreducible representations (Q706079)

Any irreducible admissible representation of a reductive group over a local field is a subquotient of the representation induced from a cuspidal representation of the Levi component of a parabolic subgroup [see \textit{I. N. Bernstein} and \textit{A. V. Zelevinsky}, Russ. Math. Surv. 31, No. 3, 1--68 (1976); translation from Usp. Mat. Nauk 31, No. 3(189), 5--70 (1976; Zbl 0342.43017)]. The Levi is a commuting product of lower rank simple reductive groups. For a topological covering ``metaplectic'' group, the Levi is no longer a commuting product. Thus one takes a smaller subgroup, starts with a tensor product of irreducibles on the simple factors, extends and induces to the full Levi, to induce parabolically to the full group. This was done in the case of \(\text{GL}(r)\), where the Levi \(L\) is a product of \(\text{GL}(r_i)\), for the study [see \textit{Y. Z. Flicker} and \textit{D. A. Kazhdan}, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 64, 53--110 (1986; Zbl 0616.10024)] of the metaplectic correspondence between \(\text{GL}(r)\) and its \(n\)-fold cover. This paper revisits this construction more accurately and in more detail.