Rational structures on automorphic representations (Q1709787)

In the paper under the review, the author aims to generalise a theory of Harish-Chandra modules over arbitrary fields of characteristic zero. A rational character theory, translation functors and an equivariant theory of cohomological induction are developed. This enables the author to show the existence of global rational structures on spaces of cusp forms of reductive groups. The cases where the obtained rational structures are optimal are identified, and include the \(\mathrm{GL}(n)\). Using the obtained results, the author also proves the existence of a natural sets of periods attached to cuspidal automorphic representations of \(\mathrm{GL}(n)\).