Signs, involutions and Jacquet modules

arXiv1204.4746MaRDI QIDQ6232484FDOQ6232484

Authors: Alan Roche, Steven Spallone 

Publication date: 20 April 2012

Abstract: Let $G$ be a connected reductive $p$-adic group and let $heta$ be an automorphism of $G$ of order at most two. Suppose $pi$ is an irreducible smooth representation of $G$ that is taken to its dual by $heta$. The space $V$ of $pi$ then carries a non-zero bilinear form $(mspace7mu,mspace6mu)$, unique up to scaling, with the invariance property $(pi(g)v,pi({}^{heta}g)w)=(v,w)$, for $ginG$ and $v,winV$. The form is easily seen to be symmetric or skew-symmetric and we set $varepsilo{n}_{h}eta(pi)=pm1$ accordingly. We use Cassleman's pairing (in commonly observed circumstances) to express $varepsilo{n}_{h}eta(pi)$ in terms of certain Jacquet modules of $pi$ and thus, via the Langlands classification, reduce the problem of determining the sign to the case of tempered representations. For the transpose-inverse involution of the general linear group, we show that the associated signs are always one.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over local fields (22E50)

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