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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0719.00018.] The author constructs the ``minimal'' representation \(\pi\) of a quasi- split group of type \(D_ 4\) over a local field \(F\). It is described in terms of its restriction to Borel subgroups. He goes on to show how this representation can be used to give a realization of the lifting from multiplicative characters of a cubic extension \(E\) of \(F\) to irreducible representations of \(GL_ 3(F)\). This process is analogous to the way the metaplectic representation of \(SP_ 4(F)\) gives a lifting from multiplicative characters of a quadratic extension \(E\) of \(F\) to irreducible representations of \(GL_ 2(F)\). There is also a description of \(\pi\) in terms of the Langlands theory. The paper ends with a number of open questions.