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Is there a simple proof that representations of GL(n,k) are determined by their restriction to diagonal matrices?
Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero. The general linear group $\mathrm{GL}(n,k)$ has a subgroup $\mathrm{D}(n,k)$ consisting of invertible diagonal matrices. These are linear algebraic groups ...
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Bernstein-Zelevinsky classification: viewing a representation as a subrepresentation or a quotient
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$\DeclareMathOperator{\Ind}{Ind}$I have a question on the details of the Bernstein-Zelevinsky classification. This classification allows us to obtain irreducible ...
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Chevalley-Solomon formula and Weyl character formula
Let $\Phi\subset V$ be a root system of rank $r$ with Weyl group $W$, a choice of positive roots $\Phi_+$ and exponents $d_1, \ldots, d_r$ (i.e. the invariant algebra $(\operatorname{Sym}^\bullet V)^W$...
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A Lie-theoretic question regarding $B\ltimes \mathfrak{g}/\mathfrak{b}$
I am stuck on a seeming elementary Lie-theoretic question arising from a study of components of affine Springer fibers. Will be very grateful if somebody would like to share some insight, or ...
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Representations of groups with the same derived group, how much control do we have over the central character?
Let $G_1 \subset G$ be the rational points of $p$-adic reductive groups sharing the same derived group. There are some well known results relating representations of $G_1$ to representations of $G$, ...
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subalgebra of invariants for a reductive subgroup
$\DeclareMathOperator\PGL{PGL}\DeclareMathOperator\Spec{Spec}$Trying to understand some tannakian reconstruction, I've stumbled about the following problem in invariant theory. I guess it's something ...
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When is an irreducible unramified principal series representation $K$-spherical?
Let $G = \operatorname{GL}_n(\mathbb Q_p)$, $T$ the usual maximal torus of $G$, and $K = \operatorname{GL}_n(\mathbb Z_p)$.
Let $\chi$ be an unramified character of $T$, with $\chi(t_1, ... , t_n) =...
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Dimension of space of K-fixed vectors
If $G$ is an unramified group over an $p$-adic field $F$, the Satake isomorphism identifies the spherical Hecke algebra with respect to a special maximal compact subgroup $K$. In particular,
(1) $H(G(...
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Definition of Admissible Representation
Let $G$ be a connected, reductive group over a number field $k$. Let $v$ be a place of $k$.
If $v$ is finite, an admissible representation of $G(k_v)$ is defined to be an abstract representation of $...
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Zariski closure of orbits of real groups on complex flag manifolds
Let $G$ be a complex reductive algebraic group defined over $\mathbb R$, and $G_0$ its real points. Then the orbits of $G_0$ on $G/B$ need not be real algebraic subvarieties. Take $G=SL_2(\mathbb C)$, ...
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Can closure of an orbit under a reductive action contain infinitely many orbits?
I posted this on math.se a week ago, currently it has 23 views and no other feedback.
Here on MO there are several questions about orbit closures but I could not find anything about what I need.
To be ...
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Problem with affine root subgroups of $SU_3$ ramified, residue characteristic $p=2$
Let $L/K$ be ramified quadratic extension of local fields, and let characteristic of the residue field of $K$ be $2$. Let $\mathbb{G}=SU_3$, $G=\mathbb{G}(K)$. Let $\text{val}$ be a valuation on $K$ ...
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Doubling constructions beyond classical groups: general principles?
The doubling method for constructing integral representations of L-functions has been successfully applied to classical groups, as demonstrated in this paper. However, extending this method to a wider ...
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Gelfand-Kazhdan criterion, exposition by Paul Garrett
Here is Paul Garrett's exposition on the Gelfand-Kazhdan Criterion.
In page 4 of the exposition, he showed the following lemma.
Lemma (Page 4): Let $B, t, S$ be as above and for $\alpha, \beta$ in $...
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Representation rings of disconnected reductive groups
Let $G$ be a disconnected complex reductive group, or equivalently a disconnected compact real Lie group, the kind treated by Segal in his (first ever, possibly) paper "The representation-ring of ...
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Conjugacy of cocharacters from conjugacy of labelled diagrams
Everything to follow is over some fixed algebraically closed field $k$. Although all the definitions make sense regardless of characteristic, the meat of the question is about small positive ...
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When does the null-cone consist entirely of eigenvectors?
Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional representation of a complex reductive Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$.
For our purposes, we may define the null-cone like this: $v\in V$ belongs to the null-cone if and only ...
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How to determine the unramified character corresponding to an unramified Langlands parameter?
Let $F$ be a p-adic field with ring of integers $\mathcal{O}$. Let $\textbf{G}$ be a connected split reductive algebraic group over $F$. For simplicity, we assume that $\textbf{G}$ is a Chevalley ...
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Meaning of a highly ramified character for reductive groups
Let $F$ be a $p$-adic local field, and $G$ a connected reductive group over $F$. What is the meaning of a "highly ramified character" of $G(F)$? I have seen this terminology in many places in ...
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Parahorics and their normalizers
Let $G$ be a reductive group over a local non-arch field $F$. For convenience let's assume $G$ has anisotropic center (or even that $G$ is semisimple if preferred). Let $x$ be any point in the ...
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Representations of a reductive Lie group vie central character and K-types
Let $G$ be a real reductive group, let $\widehat G$ denote the unitary dual and $\widehat G_{adm}\supset\widehat G$ be the admissible dual, i.e., the set of isomorphy classes of irreducible Harish-...
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A quantity computed from weights of representations -- Have you seen it?
The following quantity has come up in some work my collaborators and I are doing on equivariant D-modules, and in that particular context it seems to be very significant (i.e. it's the only "...
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Gindikin-Karpelevich formula in the quasi-split case
In Euler Products (1971), Langlands established the Gindikin-Karpelevich formula for split reductive groups over the local fields $\mathbb{Q}_p$. On the other hand, the archimedean Gindikin-...
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Density of the Mellin transform inside the direct integral of induced representations
I'm trying to better understand the continuous spectrum of $G = \operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbb A_{\mathbb Q})$, which is the direct integral of induced representations $\mathbf H(s) = \operatorname{Ind}_{...
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compactly induction of smooth modules over Hecke algebras
Let $G$ be a locally profinite group and $H$ its closed subgroup. It is well-known that a smooth representation of $G$ is identified with a smooth module over $\mathcal{H}(G)$, where $\mathcal{H}(G)$ ...
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Span of parabolic inductions of discrete series representations
Let $G$ be the $\mathbf{Q}_p$-points in a $p$-adic reductive group, and let $R(G)$ be the Grothendieck group of the category $\mathrm{Rep}(G)$ of finite-length admissible smooth complex ...
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Representation of Levi subgroup $L\subset P \subset G$
Let $G$ be a split connected reductive group over a finite field extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with split maximal torus $T$ of rank $d$ and simple roots $\Delta$. Furthermore associated to $I\subset \...
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Geometric interpretation of duality for representations of reductive groups
For a reductive group $G$ over a nonarchimedean local field, let $\Omega$ be a connected component of the variety of cuspidal data. Let $\Omega$ have dimension $d$. Let $\mathcal{M}^f(\Omega)$ be the ...
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Errata for Casselman's unpublished notes
In the first chapter of W. Casselman's unpublished notes on representation theory, there is at least one stated result which is not true:
A counterexample to this last result is given in the question ...
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On Local Langlands correspondences
Both over global function fields and $p$-adic fields, we have a series of conjectures under the name of “geometric Langlands conjectures”.
Over global function fields of char $p$, they are due to ...
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Are these statements correct for all reductive groups, or just for $\operatorname{GL}_2$?
I'm reading the following notes on Brian Conrad's website. There are a couple of statements there which seem too good to be true. There is Proposition 3.6, which states:
(Bernstein): Every ...
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Kottwitz's vertical map
I'm looking at the map $w_H$ defined by Kottwitz in "Isocrystals with additional structure II" in section 7. It is a surjective group homomorphism defined for all reductive groups $H$ from $H$ to $X^{*...
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Correspondence between dual center and linear characters of finite reductive group
Let $(G,F)$ be a connected reductive group defined over $\mathbb{F}_q$ via the Frobenius $F$ and let $(G^*,F^*)$ be a group in duality with $(G,F)$ with respect to rational maximal tori $T \subseteq G$...
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Centralizer bound for irreducible representations of $\operatorname{SU}_n(\mathbb{C})$
Let $G$ be a finite group, $χ$ be the character of an irreducible representation $V$ of $G$, and $g ∈ G$. Then a classical bound on the trace of $g$ is given by: $|χ(g)|² ≤ |C_G(g)|$, where $C_G(g)$ ...
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Nonvanishing of Jacquet modules of principal series subquotients
Let $G$ be a connected reductive group over a $p$-adic field $F$. For simplicity, we assume $G$ to be split. Fix a Borel $B=TU$ with its Levi decomposition ($U$ unipotent radical, $T$ maximal torus). ...
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Simplest way to classify reducibility of principal series for $p$-adic $\mathrm{SL}_2$
Let $F$ be a $p$-adic field and $G_1=\mathrm{SL}_2(F)\subset \mathrm{GL}_2(F)=G$. For simplicity, we assume $p>2$. Denote by $|\cdot|$ the normalized absolute value on $F$. Here I shall focus on ...
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On the character of a representation of $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{R})$
$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}\DeclareMathOperator\Ad{Ad}$Let $G=\GL(n,\mathbb{R})$. Given a continuous admissible irreducible representation of $G$ in a Frechet (or a Banach) space. Then its character ...
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Springer sheaf and Deligne-Lusztig induction
Let $G=Gl_n$ be the general linear group over the algebraic closure of a finite field $\overline{\mathbb{F}}_q $ and let $F:G \to G$ be the standard Frobenius. On $G$ there is the Springer (perverse) ...
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Principal series representations for complex groups
Let $G$ be a complex semisimple group.
In Bernstein-Gelfand, "Tensor products of finite and infinite dimensional representations of semisimple Lie algebras" (http://www.numdam.org/article/...
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How do characters of representations in cohomology depend on the (positive-characteristic) field?
The following sentence appears in Jantzen - Representations of algebraic groups, 2nd edition, p. x, where $G$ is a reductive group over an algebraically closed field $k$, $B$ is a Borel subgroup, $T$ ...
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Number of points of parabolic Springer fibres for general reductive groups
My question is the same as this post but for an arbitrary reductive $G$ instead of just $\mathrm{GL}_n$.
Let $G$ be a connected split reductive group over a finite field $k$.
Let $P$ be a parabolic ...
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Automorphism groups of "reductive" Lie algebras in positive characteristic
I put "reductive" in quotes because, of course, in positive characteristic one should speak of Lie algebras of reductive groups, not of reductive Lie algebras.
Let $G$ be a reductive group ...
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Semisimple covers of varieties
Let $X$ be an algebraic variety.
The finite étale covers of $X$ are measured by the étale fundamental group $\pi_1^{\rm et}(X)$.
On the other hand, the Cox ring ${\rm Cox}(X)$ of $X$ (finitely ...
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Classification of finite dimensional representations of split complex reductive groups
Finite dimensional, irreducible representations of simply connected, complex semisimple algebraic groups can be classified by their highest weight. I was wondering if there is an analogous ...
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If $f \in \operatorname{c-Ind}_Q^P \sigma$, then $f|_N$ is compactly supported modulo $Q \cap N$?
There is a claim in a proof in Casselman's notes on representation theory which I have not been able to verify. I have asked several people and nobody knows why it is true.
The thing I can't figure ...
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Continuity of the conductor of automorphic representations
I am interested in properties of (semi-)continuity of the conductor of automorphic representation. Let $F$ be a number field.
The meta question is, given a function on the unitary dual of $PGL(2, F)$ ...
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Unipotent characters of (disconnected) centralizers of semisimple elements: Why these two definitions are equivalent?
Assume that $\mathcal{G}$ is a simple simply-connected algebraic group over $k$, where $k$ is algebraic closure of a finite field of characteristic $p>0$, and $F$ is a Frobenius endomorphism. Let $(...
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Iwahori subalgebra as maximal solvable
I think the following is true, but haven't came up with a proof myself. Thanks in advance!
Let $G$ be a semisimple (to avoid more words) algebraic group over $\mathbb{C}$. Write $F=\mathbb{C}((t))$ ...
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Algebraic characters and quasi-characters of reductive algebraic group over non-archimedean local field
Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group over $F$, where $F$ is a non-archimedean local field.
Then $G(F)$ is a p-adic group.
Let $\Psi(G)$ be the lattice of algebraic characters.
Let $\Lambda_G$ be the ...
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Linear algebraic group, absolute root system, computing roots
Let $G(F)$ be a reductive linear algebraic group, where $F$ is a local field. Let $T(F)$ be a maximal anisotropic torus of $G$ that splits over a quadratic extension of $F$. Is there an efficient ...
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