Geometric construction of metaplectic covers of GL_n in characteristic zero

zbMATH Open1238.22011arXiv0708.0108MaRDI QIDQ2885122FDOQ2885122

Authors: Richard M. Hill 

Publication date: 21 May 2012

Published in: Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper presents a new construction of the m-fold metaplectic cover of $G{L}_n$ over an algebraic number field k, where k contains a primitive m-th root of unity. A 2-cocycle on $G{L}_n(A)$ representing this extension is given and the splitting of the cocycle on $G{L}_n(k)$ is found explicitly. The cocycle is smooth at almost all places of k. As a consequence, a formula for the Kubota symbol on $S{L}_n$ is obtained. The construction of the paper requires neither class field theory nor algebraic K-theory, but relies instead on naive techniques from the geometry of numbers introduced by W. Habicht and T. Kubota. The power reciprocity law for a number field is obtained as a corollary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0108

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zbMATH Keywords

cocycleKubota symbolpower reciprocity law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Power residues, reciprocity (11A15) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over global fields and adèle rings (22E55)

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• Metaplectic covers of \(\text{GL}_n\) and the Gauss-Schering lemma

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