Duality and Supports of Induced Representations for Orthogonal Groups (Q4676451)

The aim of this paper is to construct a duality operator for representations of \(p\)-adic orthogonal groups, analogous to the duality operators for connected reductive \(p\)-adic groups defined by \textit{A.-M. Aubert} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 347, No. 6, 2179--2189 (1995; Zbl 0827.22005)], and \textit{P. Schneider} and \textit{U. Stuhler} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 85, 97--191 (1997; Zbl 0892.22012)]. Let \(G\) be a split or non-split \(p\)-adic orthogonal group. The author defines the duality operator \(D_G\) on the Grothendieck group of the category of smooth, finite-length representations of \(G\). The operator \(D_G\) is defined in terms of Jacquet functors and parabolic induction with respect to certain parabolic subgroups of \(G\). In the case when \(G=O(2n,F)\) is a split even-orthogonal group, \(D_G\) includes both connected and non-connected parabolic subgroups, whereas the duality operator for \(G \neq O(2n,F)\) uses only non-connected parabolic subgroups. The author proves that the operator \(D_G\) for orthogonal groups has the same basic properties as in the connected case. For this, he extends three important results in representation theory from connected to general non-connected groups (``Geometric lemma'' by Bernstein-Zelevinsky and Casselman, Bernstein-Deligne-Kazhdan's result on representations induced from associated parabolic subgroups, and Casselman's characterization of the contragredient of a Jacquet module). As an application, the operator \(D_G\) is used to extend the structural decomposition of the author's paper [Am. J. Math. 119, No. 6, 1213--1262 (1997; Zbl 0888.22013)] to cover orthogonal groups.