Twisted character of a small representation of GL(4)
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We compute by a purely local method the (elliptic) twisted by transpose-inverse character χ_{π_Y} of the representation π_Y=I_{(3,1)}(1_3xχ_Y) of G=GL(4,F), where F is a p-adic field, p not 2, and Y is an unramified quadratic extension of F; χ_Y is the nontrivial character of F^\x/N_{Y/F}Y^x. The representation π_Y is normalizedly induced from \pmatrix m_3&\ast 0&m_1\endpmatrix \mapstoχ_Y(m_1), m_i in GL(i,F), on the maximal parabolic subgroup of type (3,1). We show that the twisted character χ_{π_Y} of π_Y is an unstable function: its value at a twisted regular elliptic conjugacy class with norm in C_Y=``GL(2,Y)/F^x'' is minus its value at the other class within the twisted stable conjugacy class. It is zero at the classes without norm in C_Y. Moreover π_Y is the endoscopic lift of the trivial representation of C_Y. We deal only with unramified Y/F, as globally this case occurs almost everywhere. Naturally this computation plays a role in the theory of lifting of C_Y and GSp(2) to GL(4) using the trace formula.
Our work extends -- to the context of nontrivial central characters -- the work of math.NT/0606262, where representations of PGL(4,F) are studied. In math.NT/0606262 a 4-dimensional analogue of the model of the small representation of PGL(3,F) introduced with Kazhdan in a 3-dimensional case is developed, and the local method of computation introduced by us in the 3-dimensional case is extended. As in math.NT/0606262 we use here the classification of twisted (stable) regular conjugacy classes in GL(4,F).
Accepted for publication by the International Journal of Number Theory
Accepted for publication by the International Journal of Number Theory