Small representations of finite classical groups

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-59728-7_8MaRDI QIDQ1728692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shamgar Gurevich, Roger Howe

Publication date 25 February 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01276

zbMATH Keywords

ranksizeHeisenberg grouposcillator representationdual paireta correspondencecharacter ratio

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27)

Abstract: Finite group theorists have established many formulas that express interesting properties of a finite group in terms of sums of characters of the group. An obstacle to applying these formulas is lack of control over the dimensions of representations of the group. In particular, the representations of small dimensions tend to contribute the largest terms to these sums, so a systematic knowledge of these small representations could lead to proofs of important conjectures which are currently out of reach. Despite the classification by Lusztig of the irreducible representations of finite groups of Lie type, it seems that this aspect remains obscure. In this note we develop a language which seems to be adequate for the description of the "small" representations of finite classical groups and puts in the forefront the notion of rank of a representation. We describe a method, the "eta correspondence", to construct small representations, and we conjecture that our construction is exhaustive. We also give a strong estimate on the dimension of small representations in terms of their rank. For the sake of clarity, in this note we describe in detail only the case of the finite symplectic groups.

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