Composition series of generalized principal series; the case of strongly positive discrete series (Q1885535)

This paper is devoted to the study of the structure of certain representations of either the symplectic groups or full orthogonal groups over a \(p\)-adic field, \(F\). Let \(R(G)\) denote the Grothendieck group of representations of finite length of groups in the tower; let \(R(GL)\) be the Grothendieck group of representations of finite length of a general linear group. There is a natural map, due to Tadić, from \(R(G)\) to \(R(G) \otimes R(GL(n))\). This arises as the maximal parabolic subgroup of the group \(G_n\) of split rank \(n\) in the tower has Levi component \(GL(j,F) \times G_{n-j}\). The purpose of this paper is to determine the composition series of induction from a parabolic subgroup, the representation on the \(G_n\) factor is a strongly positive discrete series representation. The representations of the general linear groups are relatively well understood. The final results are complete but too intricate to be summarized here.