The classical theta correspondence, based on the Weil representation, allows one to lift automorphic representations on symplectic groups or their double covers to au- tomorphic representations on special orthogonal groups. It is of interest to vary the orthog- onal 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.
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A reciprocal branching problem for automorphic representations and global Vogan packets
Abstract Let G be a group and let H be a subgroup of G . The classical branching rule (or symmetry breaking) asks: For an irreducible representation π of G ,determine the occurrence of an irreducible representation σ of H in the restriction of π to H . The reciprocal branching problem of this classical branching problemis to ask: For an irreducible representation σ of H , find an irreducible representation π of G such that σ occurs in the restrictionof π to H . For automorphic representations of classical groups, the branching problem has been addressed by the well-known global Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture.In this paper, we investigate the reciprocal branching problem for automorphic representationsof special orthogonal groups using the twisted automorphic descent method as developed in [13]. The method may be applied toother classical groups as well.
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- Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal)
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