Top Fourier coefficients of residual Eisenstein series on symplectic or metaplectic groups, induced from Speh representations (Q2071039)

\textit{C. Moeglin} and \textit{J. L. Waldspurger} in their groundbreaking paper [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 22, No. 4, 605--674 (1989; Zbl 0696.10023)] classified the discrete components of \(L^2(\mathrm{GL}_n(F)\backslash \mathrm{GL}(\mathbb A_F)\), where \(F\) is a global field. In their proof they determined the poles of normalized Eisenstein series. The authors of this paper consider the case of metaplectic groups and their covers which did not appeared in [loc. cit.]. To this end the authors study Eisenstein series \(E(f) \) corresponding to a section \(f\) in the induced representation \[ \mathrm{Ind}_{Q^{(2)}_{2mn}(\mathbb A)}^{\mathrm{Sp}_{2mn}^{(2)}} \Delta(\tau,m)\gamma_\psi |\mathrm{det}|^s, \] where \(\gamma_\psi\) is the Weil factor associated to a nontrivial character \(\psi\) of \(F\backslash \mathbb A\), \(\Delta(\tau,m)\) is the Speh representation of \(\mathrm{GL}_{mn}\) attached to \(\tau\), and \(\tau\) is a cuspidal representation of \(\mathrm{GL}_n\). The authors compute the unique maximal nilpotent orbits attached to Fourier coefficients admitted by the residual representations at each pole, which are simple. They use a previous result from [the authors, J. Number Theory 221, 1--108 (2021; Zbl 1482.11077)] that roughly states that an appropriate descent of an Eisenstein series induced from the Speh representation \(\Delta(\tau,i+1)\) is an Eisenstein series of \(\Delta(\tau,i)\). This descent is realized via Fourier-Jacobi coefficients.