Prasad's conjecture on degenerate Whittaker representations of general linear groups

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Let FF be a nonarchimedean local field with ring of integers o\mathfrak{o}, and let ol=o/(varpil)\mathfrak{o}_l=\mathfrak{o}/(varpi^l). Let LL and EE be unramified extensions of FF of degrees nn and 2n2n, respectively, with rings of integers O\mathfrak{O} and O\mathcal{O}, and write Ol=O/(varpil)\mathfrak{O}_l=\mathfrak{O}/(varpi^l) and Ol=O/(varpil)\mathcal{O}_l=\mathcal{O}/(varpi^l). The inclusions Ol×\root↪GLn(ol)\mathfrak{O}_l^\times\root \hookrightarrow {\rm GL}_n(\mathfrak{o}_l) and Ol×\root↪GL2n(ol)\mathcal{O}_l^\times\root \hookrightarrow {\rm GL}_{2n}(\mathfrak{o}_l) are induced by the regular representations. For a representation pipi of GL2n(ol){\rm GL}_{2n}(\mathfrak{o}_l), let piN,ψpi_{N,\psi} denote its degenerate Whittaker space for the relevant unipotent subgroup and character. A character θ:Ol×\tomathbbC×\theta:\mathcal{O}_l^\times\tomathbb{C}^\times is strongly primitive if it has the property specified in the source, and let pipi be the irreducible strongly cuspidal representation associated to θ\theta. Prasad's conjecture. As a representation of GLn(ol){\rm GL}_n(\mathfrak{o}_l), one has

piN,ψ≅IndOl×GLn(ol)(θ∣Ol×).pi_{N,\psi}\cong {\rm Ind}_{\mathfrak{O}_l^\times}^{{\rm GL}_n(\mathfrak{o}_l)}(\theta|_{\mathfrak{O}_l^\times}).

This conjecture extends the known n=1n=1 result, where the degenerate Whittaker space is one-dimensional and identified with the central character. Strongly cuspidal representations arise from strongly primitive characters by results of Lusztig and Aubert–Onn–Prasad, but the asserted description for general nn is the conjectural part.

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Ankita Parashar and Shiv Prakash Patel, “On degenerate Whittaker space for GL_4(o_2)”, arXiv:2407.21165 (2024).

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