Archimedean theory and $\epsilon$-factors for the Asai Rankin-Selberg integrals
Abstract
In this paper, we partially complete the local Rankin-Selberg theory of Asai $L$-functions and $\epsilon$-factors as introduced by Flicker and Kable. In particular, we establish the relevant local functional equation at Archimedean places and prove the equality between Rankin-Selberg's and Langlands-Shahidi's $\epsilon$-factors at every place. Our proofs work uniformly for any characteristic zero local field and use as only input the global functional equation and a globalization result for a dense subset of tempered representations that we infer from work of Finis-Lapid-Müller. These results are used in another paper by the author to establish an explicit Plancherel decomposition for $\mathrm{GL}_n(F)\backslash \mathrm{GL}_n(E)$, $E/F$ a quadratic extension of local fields, with applications to the Ichino-Ikeda and formal degree conjecture for unitary groups.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1812.00053
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1812.00053
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv181200053B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Representation Theory;
- Mathematics - Number Theory