In mathematics, the Jacquet module is a

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used in the study of automorphic representations. The Jacquet functor is the

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that sends a

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to its Jacquet module. They are both named after

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Definition

The Jacquet module ''J''(''V'') of a representation (''π'',''V'') of a

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''N'' is the space of co-invariants of ''N''; or in other words the largest quotient of ''V'' on which ''N'' acts trivially, or the zeroth

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H₀(''N'',''V''). In other words, it is the quotient ''V''/''V_N'' where ''V_N'' is the subspace of ''V'' generated by elements of the form ''π''(''n'')''v'' - ''v'' for all ''n'' in ''N'' and all ''v'' in ''V''. The Jacquet functor ''J'' is the functor taking ''V'' to its Jacquet module ''J''(''V'').

Applications

Jacquet modules are used to classify admissible irreducible representations of a

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''G'' over a

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, and ''N'' is the

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of a

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of ''G''. In the case of ''p''-adic groups, they were studied by . For the

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GL(2), the Jacquet module of an admissible irreducible representation has

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at most two. If the dimension is zero, then the representation is called a supercuspidal representation. If the dimension is one, then the representation is a special representation. If the dimension is two, then the representation is a principal series representation.

References

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