An Asymptotic Orthogonality Relation for ${\rm GL}(n, \mathbb R)$

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Autori principali: Goldfeld, Dorian, Stade, Eric, Woodbury, Michael
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author Goldfeld, Dorian
Stade, Eric
Woodbury, Michael
author_facet Goldfeld, Dorian
Stade, Eric
Woodbury, Michael
contents Orthogonality is a fundamental theme in representation theory and Fourier analysis. An orthogonality relation for characters of finite abelian groups (now recognized as an orthogonality relation on GL(1)) was used by Dirichlet to prove infinitely many primes in arithmetic progressions. Asymptotic orthogonality relations for GL$(n)$, with $n\le 3$, and applications to number theory, have been considered by various researchers over the last 45 years. Recently, the authors of the present work have derived an explicit asymptotic orthogonality relation, with a power savings error term, for GL$(4,\mathbb R)$. Here we we extend those results to GL$(n,\mathbb R)$ $(n\ge2)$. For $n\le 5$ our results are unconditional. In particular, the case $n=5$ represents a new result. The key new ingredient for the proof of the case $n=5$ is the theorem of Kim-Shahidi that functorial products of cusp forms on GL(2)$\times$GL(3) are automorphic on GL(6). For $n>5$ our results are conditional on two conjectures, both of which have been verified in various special cases. The first of these conjectures regards lower bounds for Rankin-Selberg L-functions, and the second concerns recurrence relations for Mellin transforms of GL$(n,\mathbb R)$ Whittaker functions. Our methods assume the Ramanujan conjecture at the infinite place for Maass cusp forms, but this assumption can be removed with a weakening in our error term. Central to our proof is an application of the Kuznetsov Trace formula, and a detailed analysis, utilizing a number of novel techniques, of the various entities -- Hecke-Maass cusp forms, Langlands Eisenstein series, spherical principal series Whittaker functions and their Mellin transforms, and so on -- that arise in this application.
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spellingShingle An Asymptotic Orthogonality Relation for ${\rm GL}(n, \mathbb R)$
Goldfeld, Dorian
Stade, Eric
Woodbury, Michael
Number Theory
11F55, 11F72
Orthogonality is a fundamental theme in representation theory and Fourier analysis. An orthogonality relation for characters of finite abelian groups (now recognized as an orthogonality relation on GL(1)) was used by Dirichlet to prove infinitely many primes in arithmetic progressions. Asymptotic orthogonality relations for GL$(n)$, with $n\le 3$, and applications to number theory, have been considered by various researchers over the last 45 years. Recently, the authors of the present work have derived an explicit asymptotic orthogonality relation, with a power savings error term, for GL$(4,\mathbb R)$. Here we we extend those results to GL$(n,\mathbb R)$ $(n\ge2)$. For $n\le 5$ our results are unconditional. In particular, the case $n=5$ represents a new result. The key new ingredient for the proof of the case $n=5$ is the theorem of Kim-Shahidi that functorial products of cusp forms on GL(2)$\times$GL(3) are automorphic on GL(6). For $n>5$ our results are conditional on two conjectures, both of which have been verified in various special cases. The first of these conjectures regards lower bounds for Rankin-Selberg L-functions, and the second concerns recurrence relations for Mellin transforms of GL$(n,\mathbb R)$ Whittaker functions. Our methods assume the Ramanujan conjecture at the infinite place for Maass cusp forms, but this assumption can be removed with a weakening in our error term. Central to our proof is an application of the Kuznetsov Trace formula, and a detailed analysis, utilizing a number of novel techniques, of the various entities -- Hecke-Maass cusp forms, Langlands Eisenstein series, spherical principal series Whittaker functions and their Mellin transforms, and so on -- that arise in this application.
title An Asymptotic Orthogonality Relation for ${\rm GL}(n, \mathbb R)$
topic Number Theory
11F55, 11F72
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14534