Unitary representations of p-adic U(5)

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Abstract: We study the parabolically induced complex representations of the unitary group in 5 variables, U(5), defined over a p-adic field. Let F be a p-adic field. Let E:F be a field extension of degree two. Let Gal(E:F)=1,sigma. We write sigma(x)=overlinex;forallxinE. Let E∗:=Esetminus0 and let E1:=xinEmidxoverlinex=1. U(5) has three proper standard Levi subgroups, the minimal Levi subgroup M0congE∗imesE∗imesE1 and the two maximal Levi subgroups M1congGL(2,E)imesE1 and M2congE∗imesU(3). We consider representations induced from the minimal Levi subgroup M0, representations induced from non-cuspidal, not fully-induced representations of the two maximal Levi subgroups M1 and M2, and representations induced from cuspidal representations of M1. We describe - except several particular cases - the unitary dual in terms of Langlands-quotients.


An important open problem in the representation theory of \(p\)-adic groups is understanding their unitary representations. Namely, if \(G\) is a connected reductive algebraic group over a \(p\)-adic field \(F\), then it is known that each unitary irreducible representation of \(G\) is a subquotient of a representation induced from a parabolic subgroup \(P\) of \(G\). In the present article, the author treats the case \(G=U(5)(E)\), where \(E\) is a degree-two extension of \(F\), and determines when unitary representations \(\pi\) of \(G\) are irreducible in the following cases: \begin{itemize} \item \(\pi\) is a unitary principal series representation of \(G\); \item \(\pi\) is induced from a representation the Levi subgroup of \(G\) containing \(\mathrm{GL}_2(E)\); \item \(\pi\) is induced from a representation \(\sigma\) of the Levi subgroup of \(G\) containing \(U(3)\) such that the \(U(3)\) part of \(\sigma\) is not cuspidal. \end{itemize} The author then classifies unitary representations of \(G\) in terms of Langlands quotients, and provides figures illustrating the unitary dual. This article extends similar results for \(U(3)\) and \(U(4)\). The proof is based chiefly on an analysis of intertwining operators combined with the results of [\textit{D. Keys}, Compos. Math. 51, 115--130 (1984; Zbl 0547.22009)], as well as the technique of base-change from \(U(2)\) to \(\mathrm{GL}_2\).











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