Metaplectic correspondence (Q1821143)

The purpose of this paper is to use the Selberg trace formula to prove the existence of a generalized Shimura correspondence in a large number of cases, but not in general. The groups in question are the \(GL_ r\) and the corresponding local and global n-fold covers. The final results of the paper are valid under the restriction (n, [r/2]!)\(=1\), which arises for technical rather than fundamental reasons. The authors first prove the existence of the Shimura correspondence as a bijection from the set of classes of square-integrable representations of G to those of its n-fold cover where \(G=GL_ r(F)\), F local. This also maps supercuspidal representations to supercuspidal ones, but is not surjective onto this set. They then study the extension of this map to induced representations and subquotients thereof, and hence cover the case of tempered representations; the same analysis applies also to the study of exceptional representations. From these results the authors derive the corresponding global results. As these are deduced from a specialized form of the Selberg trace formula the statements are restricted by demanding a particular behaviour of the global representation at three places. In this paper a large number of delicate techniques are used. In particular the authors use the notion of a regular function in conjunction with the theory of the Iwahori algebra, both for G and its n- fold cover, to analyse locally the subquotients of principal series representations. This knowledge is then combined with a specialized version of the Selberg trace formula to show that the orbital integrals of the corresponding elements of the two Iwahori algebras correspond. This can then be combined with techniques developed in connection with the study of base change to derive the theorems described above.