Global \(L\)-packets for GSp(2) and theta lifts (Q5947937)

Summary: Let \(F\) be a totally real number field. We define global \(L\)-packets for \(\text{GSp}(2)\) over \(F\) which should correspond to the elliptic tempered admissible homomorphisms from the conjectural Langlands group of \(F\) to the \(L\)-group of \(\text{GSp}(2)\) which are reducible, or irreducible and induced from a totally real quadratic extension of \(F\). We prove that the elements of these global \(L\)-packets occur in the space of cusp forms on \(\text{GSp}(2)\) over \(F\) as predicted by Arthur's conjecture. This can be regarded as the \(\text{GSp}(2)\) analogue of the dihedral case of the Langlands-Tunnell theorem. To obtain these results we prove a nonvanishing theorem for global theta lifts from the similitude group of a general four dimensional quadratic space over \(F\) to \(\text{GSp}(2)\) over \(F\).