Reducibility of representations induced from the Zelevinsky segment and discrete series (Q2226551)

This paper studies the reducibility of certain parabolically induced representations (smooth, admissible, over the complex numbers) of the groups \(\mathrm{SO}(2n+1,F)\) and \(\mathrm{Sp}(2n,F)\) where \(F\) is a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic \(\ne 2\) (in some places it is assumed that the characteristic of \(F\) is \(0\)). The representations under consideration are constructed as follows. One begins with a Levi subgroup of the form \(M=\mathrm{GL}(m,F)\times H\), where \(H\) is either an \(\mathrm{SO}(2k+1,F)\) or an \(\mathrm{Sp}(2k,F)\). On \(\mathrm{GL}(m,F)\) one takes the irreducible representation \(\langle \Delta\rangle\) associated to a segment \(\Delta\) as in the work of \textit{A. V. Zelevinsky} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 13, 165--210 (1980; Zbl 0441.22014)], while on \(H\) one takes an irreducible representation \(\sigma\) of the discrete series. The problem is then that of decomposing the representation obtained by parabolic induction from the representation \(\langle \Delta\rangle \otimes \sigma\) of \(M\). The main result of the paper gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the irreducibility of this induced representation, in terms of the parameters entering into the classification by \textit{C. Moeglin} and \textit{M. Tadić} of the discrete series for classical \(p\)-adic groups [J. Am. Math. Soc. 15, No. 3, 715--786 (2002; Zbl 0992.22015)]. In subsequent work [Forum Math. 33, No. 1, 193--212 (2021; Zbl 1490.22008)] the author computes the composition series of the induced representations, for a certain special class of inducing data.