On the Whittaker range of the generalized metaplectic theta lift (Q6086972)

In their recent work [Geom. Funct. Anal. 30, No. 6, 1531--1582 (2020; Zbl 1478.11066)], the authors introduced an extension of the classical theta correspondence to higher degree metaplectic covers of symplectic and special orthogonal groups. In the paper under the review, they study the existence of generic lifts in the introduced theta tower. Let \(r\) denote an odd positive integer, let \(F\) be a global field, and let \(\mathbb{A}\) stand for the ring of adeles of \(F\). We denote by \(\mathrm{Sp}^{(r)}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\) the \(r\)-fold metaplectic cover of the symplectic group \(\mathrm{Sp}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\). Let \(\pi^{(r)}\) denote a genuine irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of \(\mathrm{Sp}^{(r)}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\) and let us denote by \(\sigma^{(r)}_{n,k}\) the automorphic representation obtained as a lift of \(\pi^{(r)}\) to the \(r\)-fold metaplectic cover of the split special orthogonal group \(\mathrm{SO}_k(\mathbb{A})\). The authors give conditions of \(\pi^{(r)}\) and \(k\) so that the Whittaker coefficients attached to \(\sigma^{(r)}_{n,k}\) are non-zero and relate them to certain periods of \(\pi^{(r)}\). It is shown that the Whittaker range consists of \(r+1\) groups for the lift from \(\mathrm{Sp}^{(r)}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\).