On automorphic descent from \(GL_7\) to \(G_2\) (Q6064879)

Summary: In this paper, we study the functorial descent from self-contragredient cuspidal automorphic representations \(\pi\) of \(GL_7(\mathbb{A})\) with \(L^S(s, \pi, \wedge^3)\) having a pole at \(s = 1\) to the split exceptional group \(G_2(\mathbb{A})\), using Fourier coefficients associated to two nilpotent orbits of \(E_7\). We show that one descent module is generic, and under suitable local conditions, it is cuspidal and \(\pi\) is a weak functorial lift of each of its irreducible summands. This establishes the first functorial descent involving the exotic exterior cube \(L\)-function. However, we show that the other descent module supports not only the nondegenerate Whittaker-Fourier integral on \(G_2(\mathbb{A})\) but also every degenerate Whittaker-Fourier integral. Thus it is generic, but not cuspidal.