Distinction inside \(L\)-packets of \(\mathrm{SL}(n)\) (Q2685709)

The first main result of the paper under the review is the classification of \(\mathrm{SL}_n(F)\)-distinguished representations inside a distinguished unitary \(L\)-packet of \(\mathrm{SL}_n(E)\) as those admitting a degenerate Whittaker model with respect to a certain degenerate character, where \(E/F\) stands for a quadratic extension of \(p\)-adic fields. The second main result is a global analogue of the first one. It is proved that an element of the \(L\)-packet of an \(\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{A}_F)\)-distinguished square-integrable automorphic representation of \(\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{A}_E)\) is distinguished with respect to \(\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{A}_F)\) if and only if it admits a degenerate Whittaker model for a degenerate character of a particular type. Two applications of the preceding result are also given. The first one presents a local-global principle for \(\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{A}_F)\)-distinction inside the \(L\)-packet for square-integrable representations of \((\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{A}_E), \mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{A}_F))\), while the second one is a construction of examples of distinguished cuspidal automorphic representations whose period integral vanishes on some canonical realization, and of everywhere locally distinguished representations whose \(L\)-packets do not contain any distinguished representation.