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Steinberg reps of reductive groups over local fields vs finite fields
Let $G$ be a reductive group over a non-archimedean field $F$ with reisdue field $f$.
Edit: The statements only make sense modulo tensoring by one-dimensional representations.
Are the unitary, ...
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Reconciling Lusztig's results with the Langlands philosophy
Let $\boldsymbol{G}$ be a reductive group over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, $G = \boldsymbol{G}(\mathbb{F}_q)$, $W = \mathrm{W}(\mathbb{F}_q)$ the Witt vectors over $\mathbb{F}_q$, and $K = \mathrm{...
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Does there exist a categorical treatment of root data(systems)?
What I am looking for is an abstract description of root data with their morphisms(!) plus a comparison with the categories of reductive groups over some field, Dynkin diagrams, Lie algebras, ...
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Are all irreducible supercuspidal representation induced from compact-mod-center subgroups?
Let $G$ be a reductive group over a local non-archimedean field $F$.
Can every irreducible supercuspidal representation of $G(F)$ be realized as the induction from an open subgroup, which is compact ...
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description of an endomorphism algebra
Let $G$ be a reductive group, $F$ a Frobenius morphism, $B$ a Borel subgroup $F$-stable and consider the finite groups $G^F$ and $U^F$ where $U$ is the radical unipotent of $B=UT$ ($T$ torus).
I ...
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Pseudo coefficients and orbital integrals
I am looking for a reference/idea, how this passage from Labesse's Snowbird Lecture "Introduction to endoscopy" pg.5 can be explained:
"We shall denote by $f_\pi$ a pseudo-coefficient for $\pi$, ...
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Heights in reductive groups
Let $G$ be a reductive group over a local non-archimedean field $F$, and let $B$ a Borel subgroup. For my purposes, the case $G = GL_2(\mathbb{Q}_p)$ will be sufficient with $B$ upper triangular ...
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moduli problem for flag varieties?
Hi,
Suppose $G$ is a reductive group over an algebraiclly closed field $k$
(suppose $k$ of char zero if you want at first). Let $X$ be its flag variety.
Question: What is the moduli problem that $X$ ...
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Intertwining Integral defined on a Weyl group?
Why does the intertwining integral such as the one defined in A. W. Knapp's paper "Intertwining operators for semisimple groups" depend only on an element w of a Weyl group?
http://www.jstor.org/...
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When is compact induction in GL(2) from an open compact group admissible?
Let $G$ be a locally profinite group and $K$ an open compact subgroup (mod the center), then Bushnell has shown that the following three statements are equivalent for a finite dimensional ...
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Abel transform is an * isomorphism for SL(2, R)
Assume we conisder $G= SL(2, R)$, $K=SO(2)$ and $N$ the strict upper triangular matrices in $G$, $A$ diagonal matrices, and the Borel supgroup $B=NA$, $W$ Weyl group.
Then we have an isomorphism of $*...
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Representation theory of G1 versus G/Z
Let $G$ be an locally compact group $G$, then every irreucible representations $\pi$ is isomorphic to $\omega_{\pi} \otimes \pi'$, where $\omega_{\pi}$ is the central character of $\pi$ and $\pi'$ an ...
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Parabolic induction GL(n,Zp)
Let $P$ be a parabolic subgroup of $GL(n)$ with Levi decomposition $P =MN$, where $N$ is the unipotent radical.
Let $\pi$ be an irreducible representation of $M(\mathbf{Z}_p)$ inflated to $P(\mathbf{...
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Representations of GL(2, Q_p) and GL(2, Z_p)
The cuspidal representations of $\operatorname{GL}_n(F)$ a non archimedean field $F$ with ring of integers $o$ can be classified by inducing irreducible representation from $Z\operatorname{GL}_n(o)$.
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Character determines the representation?
Consider a semisimple Lie group or a $p$ adic reductive group $G$.
To what extent can the character of a representation as a distribution on $C_c^\infty(G)$ determine the representation?
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Twisted Gelfand pairs (Reference and examples)
Let $G$ be a locally compact group and let $K$ be a compact group. Let $(\tau, V_\tau)$ be an irreducible representation of $K$.
We consider the space of $Endo_K(\tau)$-valued, compactly supported ...
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How to understand the representation theory of $SL(n)$ from $GL(n)$?
Let $F$ be a local field. Consider the group extension (split)
$$ PSL(n,F) \rightarrow PGL(n,F) \rightarrow F^\times / (F^\times)^n.$$
What knowledge about $PGL(n)$ is necessary in order to understand ...
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Possible Borel subgroups of GL_n?
I am trying to understand the interaction between Borel subgroups of $GL_n$ and its roots. Is it correct to say that for any choice of roots among each pair of reciprocal roots
there is a Borel ...
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Coherent cohomology of G/U, G = reductive group, B = TU Borel subgroup
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Let $G$ be an algebraic reductive group over an algebraically closed field $k$, $T$ a maximal torus and $B = TU$ a Borel subgroup containing it. I'm interested in computing $H^*(G/U,\mathcal O_{G/...
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Invariant functor for admissible representations of reductive groups over local fields
Hello,
I have a question concerning a certain functor between represention categories. I'm rather sure this is already known, but I could not find a reference.
Let $F$ be a local non-archimedean ...
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Explicit formula for the trace of an unramified principal series representation of $GL(n,K)$, $K$ $p$-adic.
Let $K$ be a non-arch local field (I'm only interested in the char 0 case), let $\mathbb{G}$ be a connected reductive group over $K$ and let $G=\mathbb{G}(K)$. If $V$ is a smooth irreducible complex ...
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Is an affine "G-variety" with reductive stabilizers a toric variety?
Let $X=Spec(A)$ be a reduced normal affine scheme over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $0$, with an action of a connected reductive group $G$. Suppose
$x\in X$ is a $G$-...
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If Spec(A) has a G-fixed point and a dense G-orbit, is Spec(A) a cone?
[Edited to include a dense orbit]
Let $X=Spec(A)$ be a normal affine scheme over an algebraically closed field $k$, with an action of a linearly reductive group $G$. Suppose $x\in X$ is a $G$-...
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Behaviour of Hilbert functions
Let $G$ be a complex simple reductive group. Then the set of isomorphy classes $Irr G$ is isomorphic to the set of dominant weights $\Lambda_+$ in the weight lattice of the maximal torus of a Borel ...
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If a representation has enough reductive stabilizers, is it a direct sum of characters?
Suppose $G\to GL(V)$ is a linear representation of an irreducible algebraic group over a field $k$.
Suppose $C\subseteq V$ is a $G$-invariant closed cone that spans $V$, and that the stabilizer of ...