Complex and p-adic Hecke Algebra with Applications to SL(2)

Author

Jeremiah Roberts, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleFollow

Date of Award

9-1-2020

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Mathematics

First Advisor

Ban, Dubravka

Abstract

We discuss two versions of the Hecke algebra of a locally profinite group G, one that is complex valued and one that is p-adic valued. We reproduce several results which are well known for the complex valued Hecke algebra for the p-adic valued Hecke algebra. Specifically we show the equivalence of smooth representations of G and smooth modules of the Hecke algebra of G. We specialize to the group G=GLn(F) for F an extension of Qp, and show that the spherical Hecke algebra of G is finitely generated, and exhibit its generators. This is a standard fact for the complex valued Hecke algebra that we reproduce for the p-adic valued case. We then show that the spherical Hecke algebra of SLnF is isomorphic to a subalgebra of the spherical Hecke algebra of GLnF. Then a character of the spherical Hecke algebra ofGLn(F) can also be viewed as a character of the spherical Hecke algebra of SLn(F). Therefore such a character has two induced modules, one for the Hecke algebra of GLn(F) and another for the Hecke algebra of SLn(F). Theorem 3.4.3 and corollary 3.4.4give a condition under which the coinduced and induced modules of such a character areisomorphic as vector spaces.