A note on the arithmeitc of the orthogonal group
We extend Prasad’s results on the existence of trilinear forms on representations of of a local field, by permitting one or more of the representations to be reducible principal series, with infinite-dimensional irreducible quotient. We apply this in a global setting to compute (unconditionally) the dimensions of the subspaces of motivic cohomology of the product of two modular curves constructed by Beilinson.
It is an interesting open problem to establish Paley-Wiener theorems for general nilpotent Lie groups. The aim of this paper is to prove one such theorem for step two nilpotent Lie groups which is analogous to the Paley-Wiener theorem for the Heisenberg group proved in [4].
Let N be an H-type group and consider its one-dimensional solvable extension NA, equipped with a suitable left-invariant Riemannian metric. We prove a Paley-Wiener theorem for nonradial functions on NA supported in a set whose boundary is a horocycle of the form Na, a ∈ A.