The degenerate principal series representations of exceptional groups of type \(E_6\) over \(p\)-adic fields (Q2200049)

One of the main problems in the representation theory of \(p\)-adic groups is the question of reducibility and structure of parabolic induction. More precisely, let \(G\) be a p-adic group and let \(P\) be a parabolic subgroup of \(G\). Let \(M\) denote the Levi subgroup of \(P\) and let \(\sigma\) be a smooth irreducible representation of \(M\). One can ask the following questions: \begin{itemize} \item Is the parabolic induction \(\pi = \mathrm{Ind}_P^G \sigma\) reducible? \item If the answer to the previous question is positive, what is Jordan-Hölder series of \(\pi\)? \end{itemize} In this paper the authors have completely answered the first question for degenerate principal series of the exceptional group of type \(E_6\). Further, they have calculated the maximal semisimple subrepresentation and maximal quotient of such representations which partially answers the second question they have posed.\par More precisely, let \(G\) be a simple, split, simply-connected \(p\)-adic group of type \(E_6\) and let \(P\) be a maximal parabolic subgroup of \(G\). For a one-dimensional representation \(\Omega\) of \(P\), the authors considered the normalized parabolic induction \(\pi= \mathrm{Ind}_P^G \Omega\). The authors determine for which \(\Omega\), \(\pi\) is reducible and when \(\pi\) is reducible they have determined the maximal semisimple subrepresentation and maximal semi-simple quotient for \(\pi\). Their main result, Theorem 4.3, is summarized by the following corollary: Corollary: With the exception of one case, for any maximal Levi subgroup \(M\) of \(G\) (of type \(E_6\)) and any one-dimensional representation \(\Omega\) of \(M\), if the degenerate principal series representation \(\pi =\mathrm{Ind}_P^G \Omega\) is reducible, then \(\pi\) admits a unique irreducible subrepresentation and a unique irreducible quotient.\par In the one exception, up to contragredience, \(\Omega =(\chi.\omega_4)|\omega_4|^{1/2}\), where \(\omega_4\) is the fourth fundamental weight and \(\chi\) is a cubic character. In this case, \(\pi\) admits a maximal semi-simple quotient of length 3 and a unique irreducible subrepresentation. Similar studies were performed for both classical and smaller exceptional groups. For example, see: \begin{itemize} \item {[23], [4]} for general linear groups. \item {[11]} for symplectic groups. \item {[2, 13]} for orthogonal groups. \item {[15]} for type \(G_2\). \item {[7]} for type \(F_4\). \end{itemize} \par The reason that such a study was not performed for groups of type \(E_n\) earlier is that Weyl groups of these types are extremely big and have complicated structure. For that reason, in Section 3 the authors describe an algorithm, to calculate the reducibility of degenerate principal series. This algorithm was implemented by us using Sagemath \url{http://www.sagemath.org}. The study of degenerate principal series for the groups of type \(E_7\) and \(E_8\), using the algorithm described in the paper, is a work in progress.\par The paper is organized as follows: \begin{itemize} \item Section 2 introduces the notations used in the paper. \item Section 3 introduces the algorithm used by the authors to calculate the reducibility of \(\pi= \mathrm{Ind}_P^G \Omega\) and the maximal semi-simple subrepresentation and quotient of \(\pi\). \item Section 4 begins with a short introduction of the group of \(G\) and contains authors main result, Theorem 4.3, the reducibility of degenerate principal series of \(E_6\), their subrepresentations and their quotients. \item Appendix \(A\) contains a few technical results which are useful in the implementation of the algorithm in Section 3. \item Appendix \(B\) contains an example of the application of the irreducibility test described in Section 3. \end{itemize}