On the Whittaker range of the generalized metaplectic theta lift

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2023.08.007MaRDI QIDQ6086972zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Solomon Friedberg, David Ginzburg

Publication date 14 November 2023

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05099

metaplectic cover theta lifting unipotent orbit Weil representation

Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Representation-theoretic methods; automorphic representations over local and global fields (11F70)

Abstract: The classical theta correspondence, based on the Weil representation, allows one to lift automorphic representations on symplectic groups or their double covers to automorphic representations on special orthogonal groups. It is of interest to vary the orthogonal group and describe the behavior in this theta tower (the Rallis tower). In prior work, the authors obtained an extension of the classical theta correspondence to higher degree metaplectic covers of symplectic and special orthogonal groups that is based on the tensor product of the Weil representation with another small representation. In this work we study the existence of generic lifts in the resulting theta tower. In the classical case, there are two orthogonal groups that may support a generic lift of an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of a symplectic group. We show that in general the Whittaker range consists of

r + 1

groups for the lift from the

r

-fold cover of a symplectic group. We also give a period criterion for the genericity of the lift at each step of the tower.

Review text

In their recent work [Geom. Funct. Anal. 30, No. 6, 1531--1582 (2020; Zbl 1478.11066)], the authors introduced an extension of the classical theta correspondence to higher degree metaplectic covers of symplectic and special orthogonal groups. In the paper under the review, they study the existence of generic lifts in the introduced theta tower. Let \(r\) denote an odd positive integer, let \(F\) be a global field, and let \(\mathbb{A}\) stand for the ring of adeles of \(F\). We denote by \(\mathrm{Sp}^{(r)}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\) the \(r\)-fold metaplectic cover of the symplectic group \(\mathrm{Sp}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\). Let \(\pi^{(r)}\) denote a genuine irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of \(\mathrm{Sp}^{(r)}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\) and let us denote by \(\sigma^{(r)}_{n,k}\) the automorphic representation obtained as a lift of \(\pi^{(r)}\) to the \(r\)-fold metaplectic cover of the split special orthogonal group \(\mathrm{SO}_k(\mathbb{A})\). The authors give conditions of \(\pi^{(r)}\) and \(k\) so that the Whittaker coefficients attached to \(\sigma^{(r)}_{n,k}\) are non-zero and relate them to certain periods of \(\pi^{(r)}\). It is shown that the Whittaker range consists of \(r+1\) groups for the lift from \(\mathrm{Sp}^{(r)}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})\).

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