PGL2 over the p-adics: its Representations, Spherical Functions, and Fourier Analysis

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Allan J. Silberger Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine/USA

PGL2 over the p-adics: its Representations, Spherical Functions, and Fourier Analysis

Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg· NewYork 1970

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CONTENTS

Chapter I INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES 1.0

Preliminary remarks; the organization of this memoir ..••••.•. l

1.1

Notations, conventions, and some facts needed later •.•••••..• 3

1.2

Spherical functions on

1.3

Spherical functions of class u and the induced representation

G with respect to K..•...•.•.•.••.•. 5

= ind K+G

u .•...•.•.•...•••.•••.•.•.••...•.•• 7

1.4

The Plancherel's and inversion formulas for a type I group .. 12

1.5

The Plancherel's formula for Plancherel's formula for

S2 u

for all u implies the

L2(G) ••.•••••....•••••••••.•.•.•.• 15

1.6

The characters of

1.7

Exhaustion of algebraically irreducible representations of

G as locally constant class functions ••• 19

G and spherical functions •••...••••••••••••••.•.•.••..• 21

Chapter II THE IRREDUCIBLE UNITARY REPRESENTATIONS OF PGL(2,n) AND THEIR CHARACTERS 2.1

The principal series of irreducible unitary representations of PGL(2,n) ..•...•.••...............•.•••.•...•..•.••••••..• 34

2.2

The supplementary series of irreducible unitary representations of

G

39

2.3

The one-dimensional representations of

G.•••••••.••••••.••• 40

2.4

The special representations of

2.5

The discrete series of

2.6

The characters of the unitary representations of

G..•••••.•••••••.•.••••••••• 40

G•.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 41 G.•••••••• 45

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Chapter III A DESCRIPTION OF ALL IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS OF K = PGL(2,Q) 3.1

Representation theory of the integer triangle subgroup T nx

3.2

of

K..............•.•.........................•......• 51

A description of the irreducible representations of contained in

K

ind 1 .•.•...•.•...•.....••..........•.••..••••• 55 BnKtK

3.2.1

Two miscellaneous results •.••.••••.••.•.....•.•..••.•...... 58

3.2.2

Some estimates on the dimensions of the spaces

3.3

The decomposition of the restrictions to

Su(v) •.•... 63

K of the

irreducible representations of the discrete series of G.....• 68 3.3.1

Classification of all the irreducible representations contained in the restrictions to

K of the discrete

series of G; proofs of irreducibility, equivalence, and continuity for the representations discrete series of

Tn

of the

G.....•.•••...