Test vectors for local cuspidal Rankin-Selberg integrals of GL(n), and reduction modulo $\ell$

TL;DR

This paper constructs explicit test vectors for local Rankin-Selberg integrals of cuspidal representations of GL(n) over non-archimedean fields, facilitating the understanding of their $L$-factors and their reduction modulo $ell$.

Contribution

It provides explicit test vectors for local Rankin-Selberg integrals of cuspidal representations, enabling direct computation of $L$-factors and their reduction modulo $ell$.

Findings

Explicit test vectors for nontrivial $L$-factors are constructed.

The test vectors allow direct evaluation of local integrals as $L$-factors.

Initial application to reduction modulo $ell$ of $ell$-adic $L$-factors.

Abstract

Let $\pi_1,\pi_2$ be a pair of cuspidal complex, or $\ell$-adic, representations of the general linear group of rank $n$ over a non-archimedean local field $F$ of residual characteristic $p$, different to $\ell$. Whenever the local Rankin-Selberg $L$-factor $L(X,\pi_1,\pi_2)$ is nontrivial, we exhibit explicit test vectors in the Whittaker models of $\pi_1$ and $\pi_2$ such that the local Rankin-Selberg integral associated to these vectors and to the characteristic function of $\mathfrak{o}_F^n$ is equal to $L(X,\pi_1,\pi_2)$. We give an initial application of the test vectors to reduction modulo $\ell$ of $\ell$-adic $L$-factors.