Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 1 4 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use unnormalized parabolic induction, the convention fixed by the supplied sequence and by the occurrence of constants in . Its functions satisfy , and acts by right translation. Characters in this smooth category are smooth characters. Put , retaining the question's modulus .
First derive the evaluation adjunction for unnormalized induction. A -intertwiner gives a functional . Since intertwines and induced functions have left covariance, . Conversely such a functional definesThis function has the required left covariance. Any compact-open subgroup fixing fixes it on the right, so it is a smooth induced function; compactness of removes any additional support issue. The construction is -equivariant, and the two operations are inverse. Since is trivial on , these functionals factor precisely through the Jacquet module, givingNow use the given exact sequence , where has dimension two.
If , choose on which their values differ. Its operator on is upper triangular with distinct eigenvalues, so has two one-dimensional eigenspaces. Since is abelian, all its operators commute with this operator and preserve the eigenspaces. They are the linear character lines and . This proves that distinct-character extensions of an abelian group split, so . A map between one-dimensional linear character spaces is zero unless the linear characters agree, and otherwise is one-dimensional. Therefore the required dimension is one for or , and zero for any other linear character.
The case needs an extra argument: the exact sequence alone would also permit a split self-extension with two quotient functionals. Write . Equality with forces , so , where and . Multiplication of induced functions by identifies this with a determinant-character twist of . Twisting is invertible, so it is enough to prove nonsplitting for .
Use the open Bruhat decomposition coordinateFor the matrix factorizationshows that for all sufficiently large : the lower-unipotent matrix approaches the identity, where is locally constant. The coordinate map is injective, since this open cell is dense in the projective-line quotient and induced functions are locally constant sections.
For , direct multiplication givesThere exists a section with and coordinate functionIndeed the displayed factorization changes to the lower chart near infinity, where this tail corresponds to the constant function one. Thus it extends smoothly across the missing point. With and , the difference is the compactly supported functionNormalize additive Haar measure by . ThenThis difference survives in the Jacquet module. To prove that assertion, the unipotent action translates coordinates: . Any such translation difference is compactly supported because the tail is and when is sufficiently large. Its integral is zero: integrate over a sufficiently large additive ball, invariant under translation by , and change variables. A finite sum of unipotent translation differences also has integral zero. Hence , whose integral is nonzero, cannot be a coinvariant relation. In particular, on the operator is nonzero. This proves the equal-character Jacquet self-extension for GL2 is nonsplit.
Any -equivariant functional must kill the nonzero image of that operator. Since has dimension two, its space of such functionals has dimension at most one; the quotient in the supplied exact sequence already provides one. Twisting back gives the same conclusion for the common linear character . For any different , a surjection is impossible because both composition factors of are . Combining the two cases givesWhen the two listed linear characters coincide, the dimension remains one; they are not two independent contributions.