Unipotent-orbit conjecture for theta representations of metaplectic symplectic groups

Let rr be odd and let r<2nr<2n. Write 2n=a(n,r)r+b(n,r)2n=a(n,r)r+b(n,r) with a(n,r)a(n,r) and b(n,r)b(n,r) nonnegative and 0b(n,r)r10\leq b(n,r)\leq r-1. For a partition of 2n2n, let its SpSp collapse be the greatest symplectic partition smaller than it, where a symplectic partition is one in which every odd part has even multiplicity. Let O(Θ2n(r)){\mathcal O}(\Theta_{2n}^{(r)}) denote the largest unipotent orbit supporting a nonzero coefficient of the representation Θ2n(r)\Theta_{2n}^{(r)}. Unipotent-orbit conjecture. If r<2nr<2n, then O(Θ2n(r)){\mathcal O}(\Theta_{2n}^{(r)}) consists of the partition given by the SpSp collapse of (ra(n,r)b(n,r))(r^{a(n,r)}b(n,r)); if r>2nr>2n, then Θ2n(r)\Theta_{2n}^{(r)} is generic. This conjecture predicts the unipotent orbit attached to the theta representation and, in the range where r<2nr<2n, gives a precise partition-theoretic description; the source provides no resolution status.

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Solomon Friedberg and David Ginzburg, “Theta Functions on Covers of Symplectic Groups”, arXiv:1601.04970 (2016).

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