Generalized Whittaker functions and Jacquet modules

TL;DR

This paper studies generalized Whittaker functions on reductive groups over non-archimedean fields, revealing their behavior under Jacquet modules and providing new integral asymptotic expansions relevant to $ ext{l}$-adic representations.

Contribution

It establishes a duality relation for the descent of generalized Whittaker functions to Jacquet modules and offers an integral asymptotic expansion for these functions.

Findings

Descent to Jacquet modules is dual to an inverse isomorphism.

Constant term map is surjective.

Provides an integral version of Lapid and Mao's asymptotic expansion.

Abstract

Let $G$ be a reductive group over a non archimedean local field, and $\psi$ a non-degenerate character of the unipotent radical $U_0$ of a minimal parabolic subgroup $P_0=M_0U_0$. For $P=MU\supseteq P_0$, we show that the descent to the Jacquet module $J_P(\mathcal{W}(G,\psi))$ of Delorme's constant term map from the space $\mathcal{W}(G,\psi)$ of generalized Whittaker functions on $G$ to $\mathcal{W}(M,\psi_{|U_0\cap M})$ is the dual map of the inverse of the isomorphism of Bushnell and Henniart from $J_{P^-}(\mathcal{W}_c(G,\psi^{-1}))$ to $\mathcal{W}_c(M,\psi_{|U_0\cap M}^{-1})$ (in particular the constant term map is surjective). We give applications of this result. We also provide an integral version of Lapid and Mao's asymptotic expansion for integral generalized Whittaker functions in the context of $\ell$-adic representations.