Local coefficients and gamma factors for principal series of covering groups

DOI10.1090/MEMO/1399arXiv1902.02686MaRDI QIDQ6313746FDOQ6313746

Authors: Fan Gao, Freydoon Shahidi, Dani Szpruch 

Publication date: 7 February 2019

Abstract: We consider an $n$-fold Brylinski-Deligne cover of a reductive group over a $p$-adic field. Since the space of Whittaker functionals of an irreducible genuine representation of such a cover is not one-dimensional, one can consider a local coefficients matrix arising from an intertwining operator, which is the natural analogue of the local coefficients in the linear case. In this paper, we concentrate on genuine principal series and establish some fundamental properties of such a local coefficients matrix, including the investigation of its arithmetic invariants. As a consequence, we prove a form of the Casselman-Shalika formula which could be viewed as a natural analogue for linear algebraic groups. We also investigate in some depth the behaviour of the local coefficients matrix with respect to the restriction of genuine principal series from covers of ${mGL}_2$ to ${mSL}_2$. In particular, some further relations are unveiled between local coefficients matrices and gamma factors or metaplectic-gamma factors.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation-theoretic methods; automorphic representations over local and global fields (11F70) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over local fields (22E50) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory (11-02)

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