Comparison of germ expansion¶on inner forms of GL(n)

Abstract:

We prove that the germ expansion of a discrete series representation π^′ on GL _n (D) where D is a division algebra over k of index m and the germ expansion of the representation π of GL _mn (k) associated to π^′ by the Deligne–Kazhdan–Vigneras correspondence are closely related, and therefore certain coefficients in the germ expansion of a discrete series representation of GL _mn (k) can be interpreted (and therefore sometimes calculated) in terms of the dimension of a certain space of (degenerate) Whittaker models on GL _n (D).