Distinguished principal series representations for GLn over a p-adic field

In the following article, we give a description of the distingushed irreducible principal series representations of the general linear group over a p-adic field in terms of inducing datum. This provides a counter-example to a conjecture of Jacquet about distinction (Conjecture 1 in U.K Anandavardhanan, "Distinguished non-Archimedean representations ", Proc. Hyderabad Conference on Algebra and Number Theory, 2005, 183-192)

On the local Bump-Friedberg L-function

Let $F$ be a $p$-adic field. If $\pi$ be an irreducible representation of $GL(n,F)$, Bump and Friedberg associated to $\pi$ an Euler fator $L(\pi,BF,s_1,s_2)$ in \cite{BF}, that should be equal to $L(\phi(\pi),s_1)L(\phi(\pi),\Lambda^2,s_2)$, where $\phi(\pi)$ is the Langlands' parameter of $\pi$. The main result of this paper is to show that this equality is true when $(s_1,s_2)=(s+1/2,2s)$, for $s$ in \C. To prove this, we classify in terms of distinguished discrete series, generic representations of $GL(n,F)$ which are $\chi_\alpha$-distinguished by the Levi subgroup $GL([(n+1)/2],F) \times GL([n/2],F)$, for $\chi_\alpha(g_1,g_2)=\alpha(det(g_1)/det(g_2))$, where $\alpha$ is a character of $F^*$ of real part between -1/2 and 1/2. We then adapt the technique of \cite{CP} to reduce the proof of the equality to the case of discrete series. The equality for discrete series is a consequence of the relation between linear periods and Shalika periods for discrete series, and the main result of \cite{KR}.Comment: We fixed a problem in the proof of Theorem 3.1, at the cost of making the assumption that $Re(\alpha)$ belongs to $[0,1/2]$ in the statement. This does not affect any other resul

Conjectures about distinction and Asai LL-functions of generic representations of general linear groups over local fields

Let $K/F$ be a quadratic extension of p-adic fields. The Bernstein-Zelevinsky's classification asserts that generic representations are parabolically induced from quasi-square-integrable representations. We show, following a method developed by Cogdell and Piatetski-Shapiro, that the equality of the Rankin-Selberg type Asai $L$-function of generic representations of $GL(n,K)$ and of the Asai $L$-function of the Langlands parameter, is equivalent to the truth of a conjecture about classification of distinguished generic representations in terms of the inducing quasi-square-integrable representations. As the conjecture is true for principal series representations, this gives the expression of the Asai L-function of such representations