Cuspidal part of an Eisenstein series restricted to an index 2 subfield

Yueke Hu

Published 2013-09-28, updated 2013-11-12Version 2

Let $\mathbb{E}$ be a quadratic extension of a number field $\mathbb{F}$. Let $E(g, s)$ be an Eisenstein series on $GL_2(\mathbb{E})$, and let $F$ be a cuspidal automorphic form on $GL_2(\mathbb{F})$. We will consider in this paper the following automorphic integral: $$\int_{Z_{A}GL_{2}(\mathbb{F})\backslash GL_{2}(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{F}})} F(g)E(g,s) dg.$$ This is in some sense the complementary case to the well-known Rankin-Selberg integral and the triple product formula. We will approach this integral by Waldspurger's formula. We will discuss when the integral is automatically zero, and otherwise the L-function it represents. We will calculate local integrals at some ramified places, where the level of the ramification can be arbitrarily large.