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Tubes, Cohomology with Growth Conditions and an Application to the Theta Correspondence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephen S. Kudla  and
John J. Millson
Stephen S. Kudla
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
John J. Millson
Affiliation:
College Park, Maryland
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In this paper we continue our effort [11], [12], [13], [14] to interpret geometrically the harmonic forms on certain locally symmetric spaces constructed by using the theta correspondence. The point of this paper is to prove an integral formula, Theorem 2.1, which will allow us to generalize the results obtained in the above papers to the finite volume case (the previous papers treated only the compact case). We then apply our integral formula to certain finite volume quotients of symmetric spaces of orthogonal groups. The main result obtained is Theorem 4.2 which is described below. We let (,) denote the bilinear form associated to a quadratic form with integer coefficients of signature (p, q). We assume that the fundamental group Γ ⊂ SO(p, q) of our locally symmetric space is the subgroup of the integral isometries of (,) congruent to the identity matrix modulo some integer N. We assume that N is chosen large enough so that Γ is neat (the multiplicative subgroup of C* generated by the eigenvalues of the elements of Γ has no torsion), Borel [2], 17.1 and that every element in Γ has spinor norm 1, Millson-Raghunathan [15], Proposition 4.1. These conditions are needed to ensure that our cycles Cx (see below) are orientable. The methods we will use apply also to unitary and quaternion unitary locally symmetric spaces, see [13].

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1988 , pp. 1 - 37
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1988

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