Uniformity and functional equations for local zeta functions of K-split algebraic groups

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Abstract: We study the local zeta functions of an algebraic group mathcalG defined over mathfrakK together with a faithful mathfrakK-rational representation ho for a finite extension mathfrakK of mathbbQ. These are given by integrals over mathfrakp-adic points of mathcalG determined by ho for a prime mathfrakp of mathfrakK. We prove that the local zeta functions are almost uniform for all mathfrakK-split groups whose unipotent radical satisfies a certain lifting property. This property is automatically satisfied if mathcalG is reductive. We provide a further criterion in terms of invariants of mathcalG and ho which guarantees that the local zeta functions satisfy functional equations for almost all primes of mathfrakK. We obtain these results by using a mathfrakp-adic Bruhat decomposition of Iwahori and Matsumoto [IM] to express the zeta function as a weighted sum over the Weyl group W associated to mathcalG of generating functions over lattice points of a polyhedral cone. The functional equation reflects an interplay between symmetries of the Weyl group and reciprocities of the combinatorial object. We construct families of groups with representations violating our second structural criterion whose local zeta functions do not satisfy functional equations. Our work generalizes results of Igusa [Igu] and du Sautoy and Lubotzky [dSL] and has implications for zeta functions of finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent groups.












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