SOME RESULTS ON THE ADMISSIBLE REPRESENTATIONS OF NON-CONNECTED REDUCTIVE p-ADIC GROUPS

We examine the theory of induced representations for non-connected reductive p-adic groups for which G/G is abelian. We first examine the structure of those representations of the form IndGP 0(σ), where P 0 is a parabolic subgroup of G and σ is a discrete series representation of the Levi component of P . Here we develop a theory of R–groups, extending the theory in the connected case. We then prove some general results in the theory of representations of non-connected p-adic groups whose component group is abelian. We define the notion of cuspidal parabolic for G in order to give a context for this discussion. Intertwining operators for the nonconnected case are examined and the notions of supercuspidal and discrete series are defined. Finally, we examine parabolic induction from a cuspidal parabolic subgroup of G. Here we also develop a theory of R–groups, and show that these groups parameterize the induced representations in a manner that is consistent with the connected case and with the first set of results as well.