Poles of certain residual Eisenstein series of classical groups

Abstract

We study the location of possible poles of a family of residual Eisenstein series on classical groups. Special types of residues of those Eisenstein series were used as key ingredients in the automorphic descent constructions of Ginzburg, Rallis and Soudry and in the refined constructions of Ginzburg, Jiang and Soudry. We study the conditions for the existence of other possible poles of those Eisenstein series and determine the possible Arthur parameters for the residual representations if they exist. Further properties of those residual representations and their applications to automorphic constructions will be considered in our future work.