On special Bessel periods and the Gross-Prasad conjecture for \(\mathrm {SO}(2n+1) \times \mathrm {SO}(2)\) (Q2396233)

The Gross-Prasad conjecture relates the nonvanishing of certain \(L\)-values to the non-vanishing of certain periods of automorphic forms. There is also a refined version of the conjecture due to Ichino-Ikeda which gives an explicit identity between the \(L\)-value and the period. In this paper, the authors prove the Gross-Prasad conjecture for Bessel periods of \(\mathrm{SO}(2n+1)\times \mathrm{SO}(2)\), and establish the equivalence of non-vanishing. The refined version is not dealt with here. The method of proof is using theta correspondence, where non-vanishing of the correspondence is determined by non-vanishing of \(L\)-values. The authors point out that the result can also be established using the twisted descent method, as by a more recent work of \textit{D. Jiang} and \textit{L. Zhang} in a more general setting[``Arthur parameters and cuspidal automorphic modules of classical groups'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1508.03205}].