Automorphic distributions, \(L\)-functions, and Voronoi summation for \(\text{GL}(3)\) (Q863626)

From the text: ``In 1903 Voronoi postulated the existence of explicit formulas for sums of the form \(\sum_{n\geq 1}a_nf(n)\) for any `arithmetically interesting' sequence of coefficients \((a_n)_{n\geq 1}\) and every \(f\) in a large class of test functions ... . He actually established ... . He also asserted ... .'' ``The main result of this paper is a generalization of the Voronoi summation formula to \(\text{GL}(3,\mathbb Z)\)-automorphic representations of \(\text{GL}(3,\mathbb R)\). Our technique is quite general ... . The arguments make heavy use of representation theory. To illustrate the main idea, we begin by deriving the well-known generalization of the Voronoi summation formula to the coefficients of modular forms on \(\text{GL}(2)\) ...'' -- this occupies the next four pages of the introduction, and the next page hosts the statement of the main result, ``an analogue of the \(\text{GL}(2)\) Voronoi summation formula for cusp forms on \(\text{GL}(3)\)''. This summation formula involves ``Fourier coefficients of a cuspidal \(\text{GL}(3,\mathbb Z)\)-automorphic representations of \(\text{GL}(3,\mathbb R)\) as in (5.9)'', and twisted values of ``a Schwartz function \(f\) which vanishes to infinite order at the origin, or more generally ...'', on one side, and Kloosterman sums and certain integrals in \(f\) on the other. Anyway, ``Only very special types of cusp forms on \(\text{GL}(3,\mathbb Z)\backslash \text{GL}(3,\mathbb R)\) have been constructed explicitly; these all come from the'' ``symmetric square functorial lift of cusp forms on \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb Z)\backslash H\)''. A discussion of \(L\)-functions follows, as well as statements: ``In the past, the problem of converting multiplicative to additive information was the main obstacle to proving a Voronoi summation formula for \(\text{GL}(3)\). Our methods bypass this difficulty entirely by dealing with the automorphic representation directly, without any input from the Hecke action'' and ``Section 7 concludes with a proof of the \(\text{GL}(3)\) converse theorem of \textit{J. A. Shalika} [Ann. Math. (2) 100, 171--193 (1974; Zbl 0316.12010)]. Though this theorem has been long known, of course, our arguments provide the first proof for \(\text{GL}(3)\) that can be couched in classical language, i.e., without adèles.''