Periods and \((\chi, b)\)-factors of cuspidal automorphic forms of symplectic groups (Q1650037)

Let \(\sigma\) be an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of the symplectic group \(\mathrm{Sp}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\) where \(\mathbb{A}\) is the ring of adeles of a number field \(F\), and let \(\chi\) be a character of \(F^\times \!\setminus\! \mathbb{A}^\times\) of order at most two. In this paper, the authors introduce a new family of period integrals of residues of certain Eisenstein series \(E(g, f_{\chi \otimes \sigma},s)\) constructed from \((\sigma, \chi)\), regularised via Arthur truncation. The authors give a characterization of first occurrences of theta correspondence in terms of non-vanishing of such period integrals. This is also related to the poles of the \(L\)-function \(L(s, \sigma \times \chi)\) because \(L(s, \sigma \times \chi)\) appears in the constant term of \(E(g, f_{\chi \otimes \sigma},s)\). Thus, theta correspondence detects the location of the right-most pole of the \(L\)-function \(L(s, \sigma \times \chi)\), and hence the occurrence of a simple global Arthur parameter \((\chi,b)\) in the global Arthur parameter \(\psi\) of \(\sigma\).