• Aucun résultat trouvé

Special values of L-functions for orthogonal groups

N/A
N/A
Protected

Academic year: 2023

Partager "Special values of L-functions for orthogonal groups"

Copied!
5
0
0

Texte intégral

(1)

Contents lists available atScienceDirect

C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I

www.sciencedirect.com

Number theory/Harmonic analysis

Special values of L-functions for orthogonal groups

Valeurs spéciales de fonctions L pour les groupes orthogonaux

Chandrasheel Bhagwat

1

, A. Raghuram

IndianInstituteofScienceEducationandResearch,Dr.HomiBhabhaRoad,Pashan,Pune411008,India

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Articlehistory:

Received18July2016

Acceptedafterrevision18January2017 Availableonline6February2017 PresentedbytheEditorialBoard

This is an announcement of certain rationality results for the critical values of the degree-2n L-functionsattachedto GL1×SO(n,n) overQfor aneven positiveinteger n.

Theprooffollowsfromstudyingtherank-oneEisensteincohomologyforSO(n+1,n+1).

©2017Académiedessciences.PublishedbyElsevierMassonSAS.Allrightsreserved.

r é s um é

Dans cette Note,nous présentonsdes résultatsde rationalité pour lesvaleurscritiques desfonctionsLdedegré2n,attachéesàGL1×SO(n,n)surQ,nestunentierpositif.La preuverésulted’uneétudedelacohomologied’Eisensteinderangun,pourSO(n+1,n+1).

©2017Académiedessciences.PublishedbyElsevierMassonSAS.Allrightsreserved.

1. Introductionandstatementofthemainresult

Tomotivatethemainresult,letusrecallawell-knowntheoremofShimura[13].

Theorem1.1(Shimura).Letf=

anqnSk

(

N

, χ )

andg=

bnqnSl

(

N

, ψ)

beprimitivemodularformsofweightsk andl,with nebentypuscharacters

χ

and

ψ

for

0

(

N

)

.LetQ

(

f

,

g

)

bethenumberfieldobtainedbyadjoiningtheFouriercoefficients{an}and {bn}toQ.Assumethatk

>

l.Let

DN

(

s

,

f

,

g

) :=

LN

(

2s

+

2

k

l

, χ ψ )

n=1

anbn ns

bethedegree4Rankin–SelbergL-functionattachedtothepair

(

f

,

g

)

.Then,foranyintegerm withlm

<

k,wehave:

DN

(

m

,

f

,

g

)(

2

π

i

)

l+12m

g(ψ )

u+

(

f

)

u

(

f

),

E-mailaddresses:[email protected](C. Bhagwat),[email protected](A. Raghuram).

1 C.B.ispartiallysupportedbyDST-INSPIREFacultyscheme,awardnumber[IFA-11MA-05].

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2017.01.016

1631-073X/©2017Académiedessciences.PublishedbyElsevierMassonSAS.Allrightsreserved.

(2)

wheremeansuptoanelementofQ

(

f

,

g

)

,u±

(

f

)

arethetwoperiodsattachedto f byShimura,andg(ψ)istheGausssumof

ψ

. Furthermore,theratiooftheL-valueinthelefthandsidebytherighthandsideisequivariantunderGal

(Q/Q)

.

Theintegerslm

<

kareallthecriticalpointsforDN

(

s

,

f

,

g

)

.(Therearenocriticalpoints ifl=k.)Supposekl+2, andwe lookattwo successivecritical valuesthenthe onlychange intheright-hand side is

(

i

)

2 whichmaybe seen to be exactly accounted forby the

-factors at infinity. Suppose L

(

s

,

f×g

)

denotes thecompleted degree-4 L-function attachedto

(

f

,

g

)

,normalizedinaclassicalwayasinthetheoremabove,thenwededuce:

L

(

l

,

f

×

g

)

L

(

l

+

1

,

f

×

g

) ≈ · · · ≈

L

(

k

1

,

f

×

g

).

(1.2) Theaboveresultisastatement forL-functionsforGL2×GL2 overQ.LaterShimurageneralizedthistoHilbertmodular forms[14],i.e.,forGL2×GL2 overatotallyrealfield F.Notethat

(

GL2×GL2

)/

GL1GSO

(

2

,

2

)

,i.e.Shimura’sresultmay beconstruedasatheoremforL-functionsfororthogonalgroupsinfourvariables.

Themainaimofthisarticleistoannouncethatweexpectthefollowinggeneralizationoftheresultin(1.2)to L-functionsfor GL1×SO

(

n

,

n

)

overatotallyrealfieldF ,andwhenn=2r2.Forsimplicityofexposition,wewillworkover F=Q.

Theorem1.3.Letn=2r2beanevenpositiveinteger.ConsiderSO

(

n

,

n

)/

Qdefinedsothatthesubgroupofallupper-triangular matricesisaBorelsubgroup.Let

μ

beadominantintegralweightwrittenas

μ

=

( μ

1

μ

2≥ · · · ≥

μ

n1≥ |

μ

n|),with

μ

j∈Z.Let

σ

beacuspidalautomorphicrepresentationofSO

(

n

,

n

)/

Q.Assumethat:

(1)theArthurparameter

σiscuspidalonGL2n

/Q

; (2)

σ

isgloballygeneric;

(3)

σ

|SO(n,n)(R)0isadiscreteseriesrepresentationwithHarish–Chandraparameter

μ

+

ρ

n.

Let

χ

beafiniteordercharacterofQ×\A×.Thenthecriticalsetforthedegree-2n completedL-functionL

(

s

,

χ

×

σ )

isthefiniteset ofcontiguousintegers

{

1

− | μ

n

|,

2

− | μ

n

|, . . . , | μ

n

|}.

Assumealsothat|

μ

n|≥1,sothatthecriticalsetisnonempty;andinthiscasethereareatleasttwocriticalpoints.Wehave

L

(

1

− | μ

n

|,

χ × σ )

L

(

2

− | μ

n

|,

χ × σ ) ≈ · · · ≈

L

(| μ

n

|,

χ × σ ),

wheremeansuptoanelementofa numberfield Q

(

χ , σ )

,andfurthermore,allthesuccessiveratiosareequivariantunder Gal

(Q/Q)

.

2. Thecombinatoriallemmaandarestatementofthemaintheorem

The strategyofproof followstheparadigm inHarder–Raghuram[7,8].Inoursituation,thisinvolvesstudyingtherank- one EisensteincohomologyofG=SO

(

n+1

,

n+1

)

,especiallythecontributioncoming froma parabolicsubgroup P with LeviquotientMP=GL1×SO

(

n

,

n

)

.Asinloc.cit.,certainWeylgroupcombinatoricsplayanimportantrole—essentiallysaying thataparticularcontextinvolvingthecohomologyofarithmeticgroupsisviableexactlywhentheinterveningL-valuesare critical.

Lemma2.1.Let

μ

=

( μ

1

μ

2≥ · · · ≥

μ

n1≥ |

μ

n|)beadominantintegralweight,and

σ

beacuspidalautomorphicrepresentation forSO

(

n

,

n

)/Q

asinTheorem 1.3.Letd∈Zandput

χ

= ||d

χ

where

χ

isafinite-ordercharacter.LetG=SO

(

n+1

,

n+1

)

andP themaximalparabolicsubgroupobtainedbydeletingthe‘first’simpleroot,inwhichcasetheLevidecompositionP=MPNP lookslike:MP=GL1×SO

(

n

,

n

)

anddim

(

NP

)

=2n.Thefollowingareequivalent:

(1) −n and1n arecriticalforthecompleteddegree-2n L-functionL

(

s

, χ

×

σ )

; (2) 1− |

μ

n|≤ n+d ≤ |

μ

n|−1;

(3)thereisauniquewWP(hereWPisthesetofKostantrepresentativesforP ;wehaveWG=WMPWP)suchthatw1·(d×

μ )

isdominantforG andl

(

w

)

=dim

(

NP

)/

2.

Asdrunsthroughtherangeprescribedby(2),theratioofcriticalvalues L

(

n

, χ × σ )

L

(

1

n

, χ × σ )

(wherethecriticalityisassuredby(1))runsthroughthesetofallsuccessiveratiosofcriticalvalues

L

(

1

− | μ

n

|,

χ × σ )

L

(

2

− | μ

n

| ,

χ × σ ) , . . . ,

L

(| μ

n

| −

1

,

χ × σ )

L

( | μ

n

| ,

χ × σ )

.

(3)

This saysthat when the method ofEisenstein cohomologyis invokedfor rationality results,then we get a resultfor ratiosofallpossiblesuccessivecriticalvalues,nomoreandnoless!TowardsTheorem 1.3,weprovethefollowingtheorem.

Theorem2.2.Letthenotationson

χ

and

σ

beasinthelemmaabove,andassumethattheconditionsond aresatisfied.Thenthe quantity

c

( χ

, σ

)

Lf

(−

n

, χ × σ )

Lf

(

1

n

, χ × σ )

isalgebraicandisGal

(

Q

/

Q

)

-equivariant.(Herec

( χ

, σ

)

isanonzerocomplexnumberthatdependsonlyonthedataatinfinity, andLfisthefinitepartoftheL-function.PleaserefertoSection4formoredetails.)

3. Commentsontheconsequencesofvarioushypothesesofthemaintheorem 3.1. Adiscreteseriesrepresentationasthelocalrepresentationatinfinity

Thisis thesimplestkindofrepresentationwithnontrivialrelative Liealgebra cohomology;infact, ithasnonzero co- homology onlyin the middledegree.Furthermore, thisimpliesthat the finitepart

σ

f contributesto thecohomology of a locally symmetric space of SO

(

n

,

n

)

with coefficients in the local system attachedto

μ

. Using arguments asin Gan–

Raghuram[5],we show that

σ

f isdefinedover a numberfield Q

( σ )

andthat thereis aGal

(

/

Q

)

-actionon theset of cuspidalrepresentationsthatsatisfiesthehypotheses(1),(2)and(3).Intheproof,weneedtouseArthur’swork[1].Inthe statementofthetheoremabove,Q

(

χ , σ )

isthefieldgeneratedbythevaluesof

χ

andQ

( σ )

.

3.2. Thetransfer

σiscuspidalonGL2n

/Q

Thisisneededfortworeasons.(1)We donotwantthe L-function L

(

s

,

χ

×

σ )

to breakupintosmaller L-functions;

although,evenifitdid,withaninductiveargument,atleastinthecasewhen

σ istempered,wewouldverylikelystill havethemaintheorem.(2) Thesecondreasonisfarmoreseriousandverydelicate.Weneedtoprovea‘Manin–Drinfeld’

principle:thatthereisaHecke-projectionfromthetotalboundarycohomology(oftheBorel–Serreboundary)totheisotypic componentoftherepresentationofGinducedfrom

χ

σ

ofMP.SeeSection4below.Forthistowork,wehavetoexclude thepossibilityof

σ

being,forexample,aCAPrepresentation(whichalsogetsguaranteedbythenexthypothesis).

3.3.

σ

isgloballygeneric

This hypothesis plays several roles: itis used in proving the existence of the Galoisaction mentioned in Section 3.1 above.Shahidi’sresults[12]onlocalconstants(seeSection4below)needgenericityoftherepresentationatinfinity.

3.4. CompatibilitywithDeligne’sconjecture

TheabovetheoremiscompatiblewithDeligne’sconjecture[4]onthecriticalvaluesofmotivic L-function,becausewe havethefollowingperiodrelation:LetM beapureregularmotiveofrank-2n overQwithcoefficientsinanumberfield E.Suppose M isoforthogonaltype(i.e.thereisamapSym2

(

M

)

→Q

(

w

)

wherewisthepurityweightofM),thenDeligne’speriodsc±

(

M

)

are relatedas:

c+

(

M

) =

c

(

M

),

as elements of

(

E

⊗ C )

×

/

E×

.

ThiswasknownifM isatensorproductoftworank-twomotives;seeBlasius[3,2.3].

3.5. Langlandstransferandspecialvalues

ItisimportanttoprovethistheorematthelevelofL-functionsforGL1×SO

(

n

,

n

)

,andnotasL-functionsforGL1×GL2n aftertransferring. Wewouldseethissubtlepoint alreadyinthecontext ofShimura’stheorem,because (i)the Langlands transfer fg,whichisa cuspidalrepresentationofGL4 doesnot seethePeterssonnormf

,

fofonlyone ofthecon- stituents;and(ii)foranL-functionL

(

s

,

π

)

withπcuspidalonGL4

/

Q,successiveL-valueswouldseec+

(

π

)

andc

(

π

)

,and intheautomorphicworld,itisnot(yet)knownthatifπcameviatransferfromGL2×GL2 thenc+

(

π

)

c

(

π

)

.Inasimilar vein,onemayaskifthemainresultof[8]appliedtoGL1×GL2n impliesthemainresultofthispaper;thiswouldbesoif wecouldprovethattherelativeperiods,denoted ε therein,fortherepresentation

σ ofGL2n aretrivial—atthismoment, wehavenoideahowonemightprovesuchaperiodrelation—henceourinsistenceonworkingintrinsicallyinthecontext oforthogonalgroups.

(4)

3.6. Furthergeneralizations

AllthisshouldworkforL-functionsforGL1×GSpin

(

2n

)

overatotallyrealfield F.Wesayshouldbecauseofthehypoth- esis“the Arthurparameter

σ beingcuspidal.”We mayappealtothe workofAsgari–Shahidi [2]andHundley–Sayag[9]

since weonlywantthecaseofgenerictransferfromGSpin

(

2n

)

toGL2n.However, aswe seebelow,thishypothesisisalso neededfortheManin–Drinfeldprincipleforboundarycohomology,andforthiswewillneedArthur’swork[1].

IfinsteadofGSpin

(

2n

)

,weconsidergeneralizingtoGSO

(

n

,

n

)

(orGO

(

n

,

n

)

),thenwecannothopetogetanynewresult, sincethestandarddegree-2n L-functionL

(

s

, σ )

foracuspidalrepresentation

σ

ofthegroupGSO

(

n

,

n

)

(orGO

(

n

,

n

)

)issame asthestandardL-functionforanyirreducibleconstituentoftherestrictionof

σ

toSO

(

n

,

n

)

.

4. AnadumbrationoftheproofofTheorem 2.2

Thebasicidea,following[7]and[8],istogiveacohomologicalinterpretationtotheconstanttermtheoremofLanglands, by studyingthe rank-one EisensteincohomologyofSO

(

n+1

,

n+1

)

.Letthe notationsbe asinthecombinatoriallemma above.A consequenceofthislemmaisthattherepresentationalgebraically(un-normalized)andparabolicallyinducedfrom

χ

f

σ

f appearsinboundarycohomology:

aIndGP((AAf)

f)

( χ

f

σ

f

)

Kf

Hq0

(∂

PSKGf

,

M

λ,E

),

where q0=middle-dimension-of-symmetric-space-of-MP+dim

(

NP

)/

2;

λ

=w1·

(

d+

μ )

; Kf is a deep-enough open- compactsubgroupofG

(

Af

)

;

P denotesthepartcorrespondingto P oftheBorel–Serreboundaryofthelocallysymmetric spaceSKGf forG withlevelstructure Kf; Mλ,E isthe sheafcorrespondingtothefinite-dimensionalrepresentationMλ,E of thealgebraic group G×E.(Thereader isreferred to [7,Sect. 1] fora quickprimer on thesecohomologygroupsand forthefundamentallong exactsequencethatcomesout oftheBorel–Serrecompactification.) Thefield E istakentobe a large enoughGaloisextension ofQ; forexample, E couldcontain Q

( χ , σ )

.Torelateto thetheoryofautomorphicforms, we can passto Cvia an embedding

ι

:E→C.The induced representationsandthe cohomologygroupsare allmodules foraHecke-algebraHGKf,andinwhatfollowsbelow,werestrictourattentiontoacommutativesub-algebraHSG ignoringa finitesetSofallramifiedplaces.Next,oneobservesthatthestandardintertwiningoperatorTst,atthepointofevaluation s= −ngoesas:

Tst

:

aIndGP((AAff))

( χ

f

σ

f

) −→

aIndGP((AAff))

( χ

f1

(

2n

)

κ

σ

f

),

where

(

2n

)

denotesa Tate-twist,and

κ

is anelement ofO

(

n

,

n

)

butoutside SO

(

n

,

n

)

.Certaincombinatorial detailsabout Kostantrepresentatives allow usto observethatthe inducedrepresentationinthe targetalso appearsinboundarycoho- mologyas:

aIndGP((AAf)

f)

( χ

f1

(

2n

)

κ

σ

f

)

Kf

Hq0

(∂

PSKGf

,

M

λ,E

),

forthesamedegreeq0andthesameweight

λ

.Let

ISP

( χ

f

, σ

f

)

Kf

:=

aIndGP(A(Aff))

( χ

f

σ

f

)

Kf

aIndGP(A(Aff))

( χ

f1

(

2n

)

κ

σ

f

)

Kf

.

TheManin–DrinfeldprincipleamountstoshowingthatwegetaHSG-equivariantprojectionfromboundarycohomologyonto ISP

( χ

f

, σ

f

)

Kf,andthetargetisisotypic,i.e.itdoesnotweakly intertwinewiththequotientofthe boundarycohomology by ISP

( χ

f

, σ

f

)

Kf.Denotethisprojectionas:

R :

Hq0

(∂

SGKf

,

M

λ,E

) −→

ISP

( χ

f

, σ

f

)

Kf

.

If we denote the restriction map from global cohomology to the boundary cohomology as r: Hq0

(

SGKf

,

Mλ,E

)

Hq0

(∂

SGKf

,

Mλ,E

)

,thenthemaintechnicalresultonEisensteincohomologyinvolvestheimageofthecompositionR◦r:

Hq0

(

SGKf

,

M

λ,E

) −→

r Hq0

(∂

SKGf

,

M

λ,E

) −→

R ISP

( χ

f

, σ

f

)

Kf

.

For simplicityof explanation, let uspretend (and thiscould very well happen in some cases) that ISP

( χ

f

, σ

f

)

Kf is a two-dimensional E-vector space. Ourmain result on Eisensteincohomology will then say that the image of R◦r is a one-dimensional subspace of this two-dimensional ambient space. We then look atthe slope of this line. Passing to a transcendentallevelviaan

ι

:E→C,andusingtheconstanttermtheorem,oneprovesthattheslopeisinfact

c

( χ

, σ

)

Lf

(−

n

, χ × σ )

Lf

(

1

n

, χ × σ ) ,

(5)

where c

( χ

, σ

)

isa nonzero complex numberdepending only onthe data atinfinity, and Lf

(

s

, χ

×

σ )

is the finite partoftheL-function.Thisprovesthattheabovequantityliesin

ι (

E

)

.Studyingthebehaviorofthecohomologygroupson varying E thenprovesGaloisequivariance.

Alongtheway,weneedtoaddresscertainlocalproblems.Atthefiniteramifiedplaces,weprovethatthelocalnormal- izedintertwiningoperatorisnonzeroandpreservesrationalityusingtheresultsofKim[10],Mœglin–Waldspurger[11]and Waldspurger[16].AttheArchimedeanplace,yetanotherconsequenceofthecombinatoriallemmaisthattherepresentation

aIndGP(R)(R)

( χ

σ

)

isirreducible;thisfollowsfromtheresultsofSpeh–Vogan[15].UsingShahidi’sresults[12]onlocalfactors,wethendeduce that the standard intertwining operator is an isomorphism and induces a nonzero isomorphism in relative Lie algebra cohomology.Butthesecohomologygroupsatinfinity areone-dimensional,andafterfixing baseson eithersidewe geta nonzeronumberc

( χ

, σ

)

.We expectthat acarefulanalysis, asinHarder [6],oftherationality propertiesofrelative Liealgebracohomologygroups,shouldgiveusthatc

( χ

, σ

)

isthesameasL

(

n

, χ

×

σ

)/

L

(

1−n

, χ

×

σ

)

upto anonzerorationalnumber,justifyingourclaimaboutarationalityresultforcompletedL-valuesasinTheorem 1.3.

Acknowledgements

Itisourgreatpleasuretothanktherefereeforveryinsightfulandimportantcommentsandsuggestions.

References

[1]J.Arthur,TheEndoscopicClassificationofRepresentations:OrthogonalandSymplecticGroups,AmericanMathematicalSocietyColloquiumPublications, vol. 61,AmericanMathematicalSociety,Providence,RI,USA,2013.

[2]M.Asgari,F.Shahidi,Generictransferforgeneralspingroups,DukeMath.J.132 (1)(2006)137–190.

[3]D.Blasius,AppendixtoOrloffCriticalvaluesofcertaintensorproductL-functions,Invent.Math.90 (1)(1987)181–188.

[4]P.Deligne,ValeursdefonctionsLetpériodesd’intégrales,(French).WithanappendixbyN.KoblitzandA.Ogus,Proc.Sympos.PureMath.,XXXIII, AutomorphicForms,RepresentationsandL-functions,in:Proc.Sympos.PureMath.,OregonStateUniv.,Corvallis,OR,USA,1977,Amer.Math.Soc., Providence,RI,1979,pp. 313–346,Part2.

[5]W.T.Gan,A.Raghuram,Arithmeticityforperiodsofautomorphicforms,in:AutomorphicRepresentationsandL-functions,in:TataInst.Fundam.Res.

Stud.Math.,vol. 22,TataInst.Fund.Res.,Mumbai,2013,pp. 187–229.

[6]G.Harder,Harish-ChandramodulesoverZ,Preprint,availableatarXiv:1407.0574,2014.

[7]G.Harder,A.Raghuram,EisensteincohomologyandratiosofcriticalvaluesofRankin–SelbergL-functions,C.R.Acad.Sci.ParisSer.I349 (13–14) (2011)719–724.

[8] G.Harder,A.Raghuram,EisensteincohomologyforGLN andratiosofcriticalvaluesofRankin–SelbergL-functions,IncludingAppendix1byUwe Weselmann,andAppendix2byChandrasheelBhagwatandA.Raghuram.Preprintavailableathttp://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.6513.pdf,2015.

[9]J.Hundley,E.Sayag,DescentconstructionforGSpingroups,Mem.Amer.Math.Soc.243 (1148)(2016).

[10]H.Kim,OnlocalL-functionsandnormalizedintertwiningoperators,Can.J.Math.57 (3)(2005)535–597.

[11]C.Mœglin,J.-L.Waldspurger,LespectrerésidueldeGL(n).(French)(TheresidualspectrumofGL(n)),Ann.Sci.Éc.Norm.Supér.(4)22 (4)(1989) 605–674.

[12]F.Shahidi,LocalcoefficientsasArtinfactorsforrealgroups,DukeMath.J.52 (4)(1985)973–1007.

[13]G.Shimura,Ontheperiodsofmodularforms,Math.Ann.229 (3)(1977)211–221.

[14]G.Shimura,ThespecialvaluesofthezetafunctionsassociatedwithHilbertmodularforms,DukeMath.J.45 (3)(1978)637–679.

[15]B.Speh,D.VoganJr.,Reducibilityofgeneralizedprincipalseriesrepresentations,ActaMath.145 (3–4)(1980)227–299.

[16]J.-L.Waldspurger,LaformuledePlancherelpourlesgroupesp-adiques(d’aprèsHarish-Chandra),J.Inst.Math.Jussieu2 (2)(2003)235–333.

Références

Documents relatifs

Among the topics we discuss are recent results due to Andrea Surroca on the number of algebraic points where a transcendental analytic function takes algebraic values, new

(J. W¨ ustholz) : linear independence over the field of algebraic numbers of the values of the Euler Beta function at rational points (a, b). Transcendence of values at algebraic

These properties will be used throughout the text, as well as the fact that algebraic functions over Q(z) which are holomorphic at z = 0 are G-functions: this is a consequence

When solving the shifted convolution problem on average via the spectral method on average, the main issue is to deal with smooth sums of Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms

Moreover, infinitely many Rankin-Selberg L-functions having at most eight non-trivial real zeros are produced and some new non-trivial estimates for the analytic rank of the

This research aims to reveal the concept of criticism since it emerged in the west until the arrival in the Arab arena. How old was among the Arabs and how it becames

We prove a Mourre estimate for a family of magnetic and electric perturbations of the magnetic Schr¨ odinger operator and establish the existence of absolutely continuous spectrum

De plus, 35 % des patients du grou- pe 1 et 8 % du groupe 2 eurent une récurrence de leurs tu- meurs superficielles de la vessie à la suite du traitement; cette différence