Cubic metaplectic forms and theta functions (Q1382876)

Kubota introduced the study of metaplectic automorphic forms, which are real analytic forms on \(\mathbb H^r\), where \(\mathbb H=\text{SL}(2,\mathbb C)/\text{SU}(2)\). Examples are metaplectic Eisenstein series; their Fourier coefficients are Dirichlet series whose coefficients are Gauss sums of higher degree. The series have meromorphic continuations and functional equations. Their residues are analogues of theta functions. Especially cubic theta functions were studied by Heath-Brown and Patterson. The present work studies cubic metaplectic forms on the symmetric spaces \(X=\text{SL}(3,\mathbb C)/\text{SU}(3)\) and \(X= \text{Sp}(4,\mathbb C)/\text{Sp}(4)\). Given a cubic metaplectic form \(f:\mathbb H\to\mathbb C\), one has the Eisenstein series \(E(\cdot,s;f): X\to\mathbb C\). Its Fourier coefficients are of interest, and so are its residues at exceptional poles, which are cubic theta functions. Relations to the work of Kazhdan-Patterson are discussed, as well as to the author's previous work.