SUPERCUSPIDAL REPRESENTATIONS of Glnpfq DISTINGUISHED by a GALOIS INVOLUTION
SUPERCUSPIDAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GLnpFq DISTINGUISHED BY A GALOIS INVOLUTION by Vincent Sécherre Abstract.— Let F{F0 be a quadratic extension of non-Archimedean locally compact fields of resi- dual characteristic p ‰ 2, and let σ denote its non-trivial automorphism. Let R be an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from p. To any cuspidal representation π of GLnpFq, with coef- ficients in R, such that πσ » π_ (such a representation is said to be σ-selfdual) we associate a quadra- tic extension D{D0, where D is a tamely ramified extension of F and D0 is a tamely ramified exten- ˆ sion of F0, together with a quadratic character of D0 . When π is supercuspidal, we give a necessary and sufficient condition, in terms of these data, for π to be GLnpF0q-distinguished. When the charac- ˆ teristic ` of R is not 2, denoting by ω the non-trivial R-character of F0 trivial on F{F0-norms, we prove that any σ-selfdual supercuspidal R-representation is either distinguished or ω-distinguished, but not both. In the modular case, that is when ` ¡ 0, we give examples of σ-selfdual cuspidal non- supercuspidal representations which are not distinguished nor ω-distinguished. In the particular case where R is the field of complex numbers, in which case all cuspidal representations are supercuspi- dal, this gives a complete distinction criterion for arbitrary complex cuspidal representations, as well as a purely local proof, for cuspidal representations, of the dichotomy and disjunction theorem due to Kable and Anandavardhanan–Kable–Tandon, when p ‰ 2.
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