Descent and theta functions for metaplectic groups

DOI10.4171/JEMS/803zbMATH Open1443.11082arXiv1403.3930MaRDI QIDQ1664348FDOQ1664348

Authors: Solomon Friedberg, David Ginzburg 

Publication date: 24 August 2018

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There are few constructions of square-integrable automorphic functions on metaplectic groups. Such functions may be obtained by the residues of certain Eisenstein series on covers of groups, "theta functions," but the Fourier coefficients of these residues are not well-understood, even for low degree covers of $G{L}_2$. Patterson and Chinta-Friedberg-Hoffstein proposed conjectured relations for the Fourier coefficients of the $G{L}_2$ quartic and sextic theta functions (resp.), each obtained from a conjectured equality of non-Eulerian Dirichlet series. In this article we propose a new framework for constructing specific $L^2$ metaplectic functions and for understanding these conjectures: descent integrals. We study descent integrals which begin with theta functions on covers of larger rank classical groups and use them to construct certain $L^2$ metaplectic functions on covers related to $G{L}_2$. We then establish information about the Fourier coefficients of these metaplectic automorphic functions, properties which are consistent with the conjectures of Patterson and Chinta-Friedberg-Hoffstein. In particular, we prove that Fourier coefficients of the descent functions are arithmetic for infinitely many primes $p$. We also show that they generate a representation with non-zero projection to the space of theta. We conjecture that the descents may be used to realize the quartic and sextic theta functions. Moreover, this framework suggests that each of the conjectures of Patterson and Chinta-Friedberg-Hoffstein is the first in a series of relations between certain Fourier coefficients of two automorphic forms on different covering groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3930

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zbMATH Keywords

Gauss summetaplectic grouptheta representationPatterson conjectureChinta-Friedberg-Hoffstein conjecturedescent integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation-theoretic methods; automorphic representations over local and global fields (11F70) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Other groups and their modular and automorphic forms (several variables) (11F55)

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