Local periods for discrete series representations (Q738784)

The author studies some instances of local periods of a reductive group \(G\) defined over a local non-Archimedean field \(F\) of characteristic zero with respect to some unimodular subgroup \(H.\) More precisely, for some types of symmetric pairs \((G,H)\) and \(H\)-distinguished discrete series representations \(\pi,\) the author proves that all the \(H\)-periods (i.e., the elements of the space \(\mathrm{Hom}_H(\pi,\mathbb{C})\)) are constructed through integration of the matrix coefficients of \(\pi\) against \(H/(Z(G)\cap H).\) To obtain these results, the author uses some previous results of \textit{S.-I. Kato} and \textit{K. Takano} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2008, Article ID rnn028, 40 p. (2008; Zbl 1197.22007)], \textit{A. Ichino} and \textit{T. Ikeda} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 19(2009), No. 5, 1378--1425 (2010; Zbl 1216.11057)] in some special cases of the above setting, as well as some results of Gurevich and Offen in a bit more general setting than these. These results are then paired with results of Waldspurger on estimates of norms and spherical functions on a reductive group \(G\) to obtain, as the first step, results on the integrability (over \(H\)) of the matrix coefficients of the discrete series representations of \(G\) (so-called strong discreteness or very strong discreteness of the space \(X=H/G\)). Then, the author proves (in the case of the strong discreteness and discrete series \(\pi\) and with more relaxed conditions on \(X\) for the cuspidal representations \(\pi\)) that these integrals (of, roughly, matrix coefficients) amount to all the local periods of \(\pi.\)