A note on the global Langlands conjecture. (Q1276543)

Summary: The theory of base change is used to give some new examples of the global Langlands conjecture (or the strong Artin conjecture) (for work on two-dimensional representations, see \textit{R. P. Langlands} [Base change for GL(2), Ann. Math. Stud. 96, Princeton Univ. Press (1980; Zbl 0444.22007)]). The Galois representations involved have solvable image and are not monomial, although some multiple of them in the Grothendieck group is monomial. Thus, it gives nothing new about Artin's conjecture itself. (For certain monomial Galois representations the theory of base change immediately implies the strong Artin conjecture [see \textit{J. G. Arthur} and \textit{L. Clozel}, Simple algebras, base change and the advanced theory of the trace formula, Ann. Math. Stud. 120, Princeton Univ. Press (1989; Zbl 0682.10022)].) An application is given to a question which arises in studying multiplicities of cuspidal representations of \(\text{SL}_n\). We explain how the (conjectural) adjoint lifting can prove the global Langlands conjecture for a family of representations containing the tetrahedral \(2\)-dimensional ones.