Distinction of the Steinberg representation for inner forms of GL(n)

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Abstract: Let F be a non archimedean local field of characteristic not 2. Let D be a division algebra of dimension d2 over its center F, and E a quadratic extension of F. If m is a positive integer, to a character chi of E∗, one can attach the Steinberg representation St(chi) of G=GL(m,DotimesFE). Let H be the group GL(m,D), we prove that St(chi) is H-distinguished if and only if chi|F∗ is the quadratic character etaE/Fmd−1, where etaE/F is the character of F∗ with kernel the norms of E∗. We also get multiplicity one for the space of invariant linear forms. As a corollary, we see that the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence preserves distinction for Steinberg representations.


Let \(F\) be a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic \(\neq 2\). Let \(D\) be a division algebra of dimension \(d^2\) over its center \(F\) and let \(E/F\) be a quadratic extension. Consider the groups \(G=\mathrm{GL}_m(D\otimes_FE)\) and its subgroup \(H=\mathrm{GL}_m(D)\). The main result of the present paper asserts that for a character \(\chi\) of \(H\) and the Steinberg representation \(St(1)\) of \(G\) the space \(\mathrm{Hom}_H(St(1),\chi)\) is zero, unless \(\chi=\eta_{E/F}^{md-1}\circ N_H\), where \(\eta_{E/F}\) is the non-trivial character of \(F^\times\) which is trivial on the norms of \(E^\times\) and \(N_H\) is the reduced norm of the matrix algebra \(\mathrm{Mat}_m(D)\) which contains \(H\). This is a particular case of some conjectures of \textit{D. Prasad} [``A `relative' Langlands correspondence, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1512.04347}].











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