Distinguished representations of metaplectic groups

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In the theory of automorphic forms on metaplectic covers of \(GL_r\), the Whittaker models of genuine representations over the corresponding local fields play a crucial role. The dimension of the space of Whittaker models is not at all well understood. If it is 1, then one says that the representation is distinguished; this paper is devoted to the problem of determining the distinguished irreducible admissible representations of the \(n\)-fold cover of \(GL_r(F)\), \(F\) a non-archimedean local field of characteristic 0. The author adduces evidence for the remarkable conjecture that, at least if \(\text{gcd} (r-1,n)=1\), such representations only occur when \(r\) is divisible by \(n\), and that they then have a very specific form. He proves this in the unramified case. Moreover in the cases \(r=n\) or \(2n\) he computes a certain Rankin-Selberg convolution of such a representation against an unramified representation on the \(n\)-fold cover of \(GL_{r'}(F)\) where \(r'<n\) \((r=n)\) or \(r'\leq n\) \((r=2n)\). Using the local theory the author constructs a global analogue of the local representations which is distinguished in the global sense. He also computes, under the same assumptions as above, the Rankin-Selberg convolution of this distinguished representation against an arbitrary one. It is, up to a finite number of factors, a Godement-Jacquet zeta function.




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