Maass relations for Saito\u2013Kurokawa lifts of higher levels

Abstract

It is known that among Siegel modular forms of degree 2 and level 1 the only functions that violate the Ramanujan conjecture are Saito–Kurokawa lifts of modular forms of level 1. These are precisely the functions whose Fourier coefficients satisfy Maass relations. More generally, the Ramanujan conjecture for mathrm {GSp}_4 is predicted to fail only in case of CAP representations. It is not known though whether the associated Siegel modular forms (of various levels) still satisfy a version of Maass relations. We show that this is indeed the case for the ones related to P-CAP representations. Our method generalises an approach of Pitale, Saha and Schmidt who employed representation–theoretic techniques to (re)prove this statement in case of level 1. In particular, we compute and express certain values of a global Bessel period in terms of Fourier coefficients of the associated Siegel modular form. Moreover, we derive a local–global relation satisfied by Bessel periods, which allows us to combine those computations with a characterization of local components of CAP representations.