2008-04-18

Dihua Jiang, University of Minnesota

On the Local-Global Principle for Automorphic Forms

It is well known that an irreducible unitary automorphic representation is a restricted tensor product of irreducible unitary admissible representations over all corresponding local fields. It is fundamental to understand how much of the properties of the local representations can be carried over to the automorphic representations and hence properties of some local representations imply the same properties for other local representations occurring in the given automorphic representation. In this talk, I will explain our recent work toward such a local-global principle. For example, we prove that under a certain assumption, for an irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of an orthogonal group, if one local component is generic, then at almost all local places, the local components are generic. If time permits, we will explain that for a given irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation, a certain quasi-invariant property for one local component implies the range of holomorphy of the standard L-function for a certain right half-plane.