Type: Article
Publication Date: 2001-04-01
Citations: 17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-2001-011-7
Abstract We determine the poles of the standard intertwining operators for a maximal parabolic subgroup of the quasi-split unitary group defined by a quadratic extension E/F of p -adic fields of characteristic zero. We study the case where the Levi component M ≃ GL n ( E ) × U m ( F ), with n ≡ m (mod 2). This, along with earlier work, determines the poles of the local Rankin-Selberg product L -function L(s, t′ × τ), with t′ an irreducible unitary supercuspidal representation of GL n ( E ) and τ a generic irreducible unitary supercuspidal representation of U m ( F ). The results are interpreted using the theory of twisted endoscopy.