Periods and $(χ,b)$-factors of Cuspidal Automorphic Forms of Symplectic Groups

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a new family of period integrals attached to irreducible cuspidal automorphic representations $\sigma$ of symplectic groups $\mathrm{Sp}_{2n}(\mathbb{A})$, which detects the right-most pole of the $L$-function $L(s,\sigma\times\chi)$ for some character $\chi$ of $F^\times\backslash\mathbb{A}^\times$ of order at most $2$, and hence the occurrence of a simple global Arthur parameter $(\chi,b)$ in the global Arthur parameter $\psi$ attached to $\sigma$. We also give a characterisation of first occurrences of theta correspondence by (regularised) period integrals of residues of certain Eisenstein series.