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On a refined local converse theorem for SO(4)

Representation Theory 2026-02-09 v2

Abstract

Recently, Hazeltine-Liu, and independently Haan-Kim-Kwon, proved a local converse theorem for SO2n(F)\mathrm{SO}_{2n}(F) over a pp-adic field FF, which says that, up to an outer automorphism of SO2n(F)\mathrm{SO}_{2n}(F), an irreducible generic representation of SO2n(F)\mathrm{SO}_{2n}(F) is uniquely determined by its twisted gamma factors by generic representations of GLk(F)\mathrm{GL}_k(F) for k=1,,nk=1,\dots,n. It is desirable to remove the ``up to an outer automorphism" part in the above theorem using more twisted gamma factors, but this seems a hard problem. In this paper, we provide a solution to this problem for the group SO4(F)\mathrm{SO}_4(F), namely, we show that a generic supercuspidal representation π\pi of SO4(F)\mathrm{SO}_4(F) is uniquely determined by its GL1\mathrm{GL}_1, GL2\mathrm{GL}_2 twisted local gamma factors and a twisted exterior square local gamma factor of π\pi.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2302.06256,
  title  = {On a refined local converse theorem for SO(4)},
  author = {Pan Yan and Qing Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06256},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Conjecture 1.2 in a previous draft was removed since we were told that it is false even for SO(6)

R2 v1 2026-06-28T08:38:36.608Z