At , a determinant-character twist reduces to . In the open Bruhat coordinate, a section for and otherwise has . Its additive Haar integral is nonzero, whereas every unipotent translation difference has zero such integral. The difference therefore survives in the Jacquet module, proving that this two-dimensional self-extension is nonsplit and has just one quotient functional of the common linear character.
Evaluation of an intertwiner at the identity gives a -equivariant functional. Conversely a functional gives , which has the required covariance and is fixed on the right by any compact-open subgroup fixing . These inverse constructions prove the displayed adjunction. If is trivial on the unipotent radical, it is equivalent to a character-valued functional on the Jacquet module.
Jacquet module 2026-10-14
The unnormalized Jacquet module is the space of coinvariants of a unipotent subgroup . If a subgroup normalizes , it acts on this quotient. Every linear functional transforming by a linear character trivial on factors through it. Normalized Jacquet functors include an additional modulus twist; that convention must be specified.
The local principal series of GL2 induces a smooth linear character of its diagonal torus, inflated to its upper-triangular subgroup. Its unnormalized Jacquet module has two one-dimensional composition factors, and , where . When these coincide, the module is a nonsplit self-extension, so one must not count the linear character twice as two independent quotients.
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 defines
This 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, giving
Now 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 coordinate
For the matrix factorization
shows 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 gives
There exists a section with and coordinate function
Indeed 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 function
Normalize additive Haar measure by . Then
This 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 gives
When the two listed linear characters coincide, the dimension remains one; they are not two independent contributions.