Generic representations of metaplectic groups and their theta lifts (Q2663087)

In this paper the authors give the description of generic representations of metaplectic groups over \( p \)-adic fields in terms of their Langlands parameters and calculate their theta lifts on all levels for any tower of odd orthogonal groups. They also precisely describe all the occurrences of the failure of the standard module conjecture for metaplectic groups. To describe their result, let \( W \) be a symplectic vector space of (even) dimension \( 2n \) over a non-Archimedean local field \( F \) of characteristic \( 0 \). Let \(\mathrm{Sp}(2n, F)\) denote the corresponding symplectic group, i.e., the group of isometries of \( W \). The metaplectic group \(\widetilde{\mathrm{Sp}(2n,F)}\) is the unique non-trivial two-fold central extension of \(\mathrm{Sp}(2n,F)\): \[ 1 \to \{\pm 1\} \to \widetilde{\mathrm{Sp}(2n,F)}\to\mathrm{Sp}(2n, F) \to 1. \] The goal of this paper is first to obtain a complete description of the irreducible generic representations of \(\widetilde{\mathrm{Sp}(2n,F)}\) in terms of their Langlands parameters and then to compute the theta lifts of all the irreducible generic representations to any orthogonal tower on all levels. We quote: ``In the case of quasi-split classical groups, the first question is answered by the standard module conjecture: the standard module of an irreducible generic representation is itself irreducible. Thus, the set of (equivalence classes of) generic irreducible representation corresponds to the set of those generic standard representations which are irreducible.'' ``In case of the metaplectic group, the situation is more complicated because the standard module conjecture no longer holds.'' Their main theorem is stated in Theorem~1.1 and we shall not attempt to reproduce it here. The main ingredient used in the proof of their main theorem is the analysis of certain local coefficients as introduced by \textit{F. Shahidi} [Am. J. Math. 103, 297--355 (1981; Zbl 0467.12013); Ann. Math. (2) 132, No. 2, 273--330 (1990; Zbl 0780.22005)] and adapted to the setting of metaplectic groups by \textit{D. Szpruch} [Isr. J. Math. 195, Part B, 897--971 (2013; Zbl 1326.11023)]. By analyzing the holomorphy of the appropriate local coefficient they are able to determine first the cuspidal reducibilities.