{ "id": "math/0408380", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-08-27T08:53:36.000Z", "updated": "2004-08-27T08:53:36.000Z", "title": "Distinguished representations, base change, and reducibility for unitary groups", "authors": [ "U. K. Anandavardhanan", "C. S. Rajan" ], "comment": "13 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "We show the equality of the local Asai L-functions defined via the Rankin-Selberg method and the Langlands-Shahidi method for a square integrable representation of GL(n,E). As a consequence we characterise reducibility of certain induced representations of U(n,n), and the image of the base change map from U(n) to GL(n,E) in terms of GL(n,F)-distinguishedness.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-08-27T08:53:36.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11F70", "22E50" ], "keywords": [ "unitary groups", "distinguished representations", "base change map", "rankin-selberg method", "langlands-shahidi method" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 13, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2004math......8380A" } } }