Theta correspondence for almost unramified representations of unitary groups (Q2235728)

In this paper, the author introduces certain class of (complex) representations of quasi split unitary groups of even rank over local non-Archimedean fields and examines their behavior under the local theta correspondence. As the author explained, his main motivation for introducing and studying these representations comes from the global setting of the automorphic representations with the global root number equal to \(-1\). Here, one usually has some additional requirements on the Archimedean places so it turns out that one needs (some) representation on the non-Archimedean places which have the local root number to be equal to \(-1\). So, the representations he introduces are, in some sense, the least ramified among all the representations of root number \(-1\). He defines these representations for unitary groups as above through certain (commutative) Hecke algebras, indexed by \(\pm 1.\) Here he develops the theory parallel for \(+1\) and \(-1\)-case, where \(+1\)-case will lead to just the usual unramified representations. In more detail, he introduces certain characters (indexed by \(\pm 1\)) of these, roughly, finite Iwahori Hecke algebras (with respect to certain maximal compact subgroups), and then the almost unramified irreducible representations will be those irreducible subquotients of the unramified principal series whose Iwahori-fixed vectors admit actions of these algebras according to the character of the algebra indexed by \(-1\). After the detailed examination of the structure of those eigenspaces, the author studies the behavior of these representations in the theta correspondence (with another unitary group over hermitian space of even dimension) by examining the action of the tensor product of the just introduced \(\pm 1\) Hecke-algebra on the original group with the usual spherical Hecke algebra on the other group. He also obtains some very interesting results on zeta integrals of unramified and almost unramified representations. He then employs these results for the explicit description of theta correspondence.