A sufficient condition for the irreducibility of a parabolically induced representation of \(GL(m,D)\) (Q2511501)

Let \(F\) be a local field and \(D\) a finite dimensional division algebra of center \(F\). Let \(\mathrm{GL}(n,D)\) be the invertible \(n \times n\)-matrices with entries in \(D\). The first half of the article recalls the classification of irreducible smooth representations of \(\mathrm{GL}(n,D)\). Accepting as building blocks certain (twists of) irreducible ``cuspidal'' representations, every irreducible representation is found by parabolic induction of tensor products of these for smaller copies \(\mathrm{GL}(n_1,D),\dots,\mathrm{GL}(n_r,D)\) of \(\mathrm{GL}(n,D)\) such that \(n_1 + \dots + n_r=n\). This construction gives a parametrization of all irreducible representations by ``multisegments'', tuples of intervals of natural numbers attached to cuspidal representations. This yields two ``dual'' parametrizations, Langlands's and Zelevinsky's, depending on, given a multisegment, taking either the unique irreducible quotient or subrepresentation of the parabolic inductions. The second half establishes the main theorem: If \(i\) and \(j\) are two multisegments that parametrize irreducible representations \(L(i)\) of \(\mathrm{GL}(n,D)\), given by Langlands's parametrization, and \(Z(j)\) of \(\mathrm{GL}(m,D)\), given by Zelevinsky's parametrization, then the parabolic induction of \(L(i) \otimes Z(j)\) from \(\mathrm{GL}(n,D) \times \mathrm{GL}(m,D)\) to \(\mathrm{GL}(n+m,D)\) is irreducible if (but not only if) \(i\) and \(j\) are not ``juxtaposed'', a combinatorial criterion. The final section applies the juxtaposition criterion to certain ``ladder'' representations especially suited to it, singled out by combinatorial conditions on their multisegment parametrizations. These include in particular the Speh representations whose products constitute all ``rigid'' unitary irreducible representations.