Some local-global non-vanishing results for theta lifts from orthogonal groups

Abstract

We, firstly, improve a theorem of B. Roberts which characterizes non-vanishing of a global theta lift from O(X) to Sp(n) in terms of non-vanishing of local theta lifts. In particular, we will remove all the archimedean conditions imposed upon his theorem. Sec- ondly, following Roberts, we will apply our theorem to theta lifting of low rank similitude groups. Namely we characterize the non-vanishing condition of a global theta lift from GO(4) to GSp(2) in our improved setting. Also we consider non-vanishing conditions of a global theta lift from GO(4) to GSp(1) and explicitly compute the lift when it exists.