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On two definitions of wave-front sets for $p$-adic groups

Representation Theory 2025-10-22 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

The wave-front set for an irreducible admissible representation of a pp-adic reductive group is the set of maximal nilpotent orbits which appear in the local character expansion. By M\oe glin-Waldspurger, they are also the maximal nilpotent orbits whose associated degenerate Whittaker models are non-zero. However, in the literature there are two versions commonly used, one defining maximality using analytic closure and the other using Zariski closure. We show that these two definitions are non-equivalent for G=Sp4G=Sp_4.

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@article{arxiv.2306.09536,
  title  = {On two definitions of wave-front sets for $p$-adic groups},
  author = {Cheng-Chiang Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09536},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages. Comments welcome! (v2: journal version. Mild fix and update around Proof of Lemma 2.1, Prop. 3.1 and other stuff)

R2 v1 2026-06-28T11:06:41.549Z