Jacquet's local converse conjecture for general linear groups

Let FF be a non-Archimedean local field of characteristic 00. Let GLl(F)\mathrm{GL}_l(F) denote the general linear group, and let π1\pi_1 and π2\pi_2 be irreducible generic representations of GLl(F)\mathrm{GL}_l(F) with the same central character. For an irreducible generic representation τ\tau of GLn(F)\mathrm{GL}_n(F) and a nontrivial additive character ψ\psi of FF, write γ(s,πi×τ,ψ)\gamma(s,\pi_i\times\tau,\psi) for the local twisted Rankin–Selberg gamma factor.

Jacquet's local converse conjecture. If

γ(s,π1×τ,ψ)=γ(s,π2×τ,ψ)\gamma(s,\pi_1\times\tau,\psi)=\gamma(s,\pi_2\times\tau,\psi)

as functions of the complex variable ss for every irreducible generic representation τ\tau of GLn(F)\mathrm{GL}_n(F) with 1n[l2]1\leq n\leq\left[\frac{l}{2}\right], then π1π2\pi_1\cong\pi_2.

The conjecture is a converse theorem characterizing generic representations of general linear groups through their twisted Rankin–Selberg gamma factors. It was proved independently by Chai and by Jacquet and Liu using different analytic methods.

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Primary source

Alexander Hazeltine, “A converse theorem for quasi-split even special orthogonal groups over finite fields”, arXiv:2501.16338 (2025).

Additional references

9 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2309.10445, arXiv:2301.13092, arXiv:2301.13847, arXiv:1811.10472, arXiv:1804.01664, arXiv:1504.02819, arXiv:1409.4790, arXiv:1310.2585.

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