Number Theory Seminar
Eliot Brenner
University of Minnesota
Analytic Properties of Residual Eisenstein Series
Abstract: We partially generalize the results of Kudla and Rallis on the poles of degenerate, Siegel-parabolic Eisenstein series to residual-data Eisenstein series. In particular, for $a,b$ integers greater than 1, we show that poles of the Eisenstein series induced from the Speh representation on the Levi component of the Siegel parabolic of $\mathrm{Sp}_{2ab}$ are located in a particular "segment" of half integers $X_{b}$ between a "right endpoint" and its negative, inclusive of endpoints. We study the automorphic forms $\Phi_{i}^{(b)}$ obtained as residues at the points $s_i^{(b)}$ (defined precisely in the paper) by calculating their cuspidal exponents in certain cases. In the case of the "endpoint" $s_0^{(b)}$ and `first interior point' $s_1^{(b)}$ in the segment of singularity points, we are able to determine a set containing \textit{all possible} cuspidal exponents of $\Phi_0^{(b)}$ and $\Phi_1^{(b)}$ precisely for all $a$ and $b$. In these cases, we use the result of the calculation to deduce that the residual automorphic forms lie in $L^2(G(k)\backslash G(\mathbf{A}))$. In a more precise sense, our result establishes a relationship between, on the one hand, the actually occurring cuspidal exponents of $\Phi_i^{(b)}$, residues at interior points which lie to the right of the origin, and, on the other hand, the "analytic properties" of the original residual-data Eisenstein series at the origin. If time permits we will discuss further analytic properties such as wave-front sets of the residual automorphic forms, and applications of our calculations.
Wednesday November 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM in SEO 427