Rationality conjecture for canonical local periods

Let EE be a field, let GG be a reductive group over a local field FF, and let Y=H\GY=H\backslash G be a spherical variety. For a smooth admissible G(F)G(F)-representation π\pi over EE, let E(π)\mathcal{E}(\pi) be the set of embeddings τ:EC\tau:E\to\mathbb{C} such that πτ\pi_\tau is irreducible and occurs in the Plancherel decomposition of L2(Y(F))L^2(Y(F)). Define

(πEπ)={iviviππivi(vi)0}(\pi\otimes_E\pi^\vee)^\star=\left\{\sum_i v_i\otimes v^i\in\pi\otimes\pi^\vee\mid\sum_i v^i(v_i)\neq0\right\}

and let Q(πEπ)Q(\pi\otimes_E\pi^\vee) be the corresponding localization. Rationality conjecture for canonical local periods. If E(π)\mathcal{E}(\pi) is nonempty, there is a unique EE-linear map

Qπ:Q(πEπ)EQ_\pi:Q(\pi\otimes_E\pi^\vee)\longrightarrow E

whose scalar extension under every τE(π)\tau\in\mathcal{E}(\pi) is QπτQ_{\pi_\tau}. This asserts that the canonical local period is defined over EE whenever at least one complex realization occurs in the Plancherel decomposition; the source gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Li Cai and Yangyu Fan, “Families of Canonical Local Periods on Spherical Varieties”, arXiv:2107.05921 (2023).

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