Whittaker spaces for reducible unitary principal series representations of \(\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}_2(F)}\) (Q7008677)

Let \(F\) be a \(p\)-adic field containing the full group of \(n\)th roots of 1. Let \(G\) be the topological \(n\)-fold cover of SL(2,\(F\)) constructed by Kubota. This paper computes the dimension of the space of Whittaker functionals of the two irreducible summands inside a reducible unitary genuine principal series representation of \(G\). It also shows how these dimensions change when the Whittaker character is modified. Application: the action of the twisted Kazhdan-Patterson \(n\)-fold cover of GL(2,\(F\)) on the two summands is computed. The results concern both unramified representations -- recovering results that had been obtained by Gao using the Gindikin-Karpelevich formula and the explicit description of the scattering matrices by McNamara -- and ramified ones, using explicit computation of the Plancherel measure. The work does not use the assumption that \(p\) does not divide \(n\): the cover is tame.