Poles of Eisenstein series on general linear groups induced from two Speh representations

Abstract: We determine the poles of the Eisenstein series on a general linear group, induced from two Speh representations, $\Delta(\tau,m_1)|\cdot|^s\times\Delta(\tau,m_2)|\cdot|^{-s}$, $Re(s)\geq 0$, where $\tau$ is an irreducible, unitary, cuspidal, automorphic representation of $GL_n({\bf A})$. The poles are simple and occur at $s=\frac{m_1+m_2}{4}-\frac{i}{2}$, $0\leq i\leq min(m_1,m_2)-1$. Our methods also show that when $m_1=m_2$, the above Eisenstein series vanish at s=0.