Let $F$ be a local non-archimedean field of characteristic zero. We prove that a representation of $GL(n,F)$ obtained from irreducible parabolic induction of supercuspidal representations is distinguished by an orthogonal group only if the inducing data is distinguished by appropriate orthogonal groups. As a corollary, we get that an irreducible representation induced from supercuspidals that is distinguished by an orthogonal group is metic.

Let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be $p$-adic groups. We describe a decomposition of ${\rm Ext}$-groups in the category of smooth representations of $G_1 \times G_2$ in terms of ${\rm Ext}$-groups for $G_1$ and $G_2$. We comment on ${\rm Ext}^1_G(\pi,\pi)$ for a supercuspidal representation $\pi$ of a $p$-adic group $G$. We also consider an example of identifying the class, in a suitable ${\rm Ext}^1$, of a Jacquet module of certain representations of $p$-adic ${\rm GL}_{2n}$.

In this paper we determine the structure of the full lift for the Howe correspondence of $(Sp(n),O(V))$ for rank-one reducibilities.

An irreducible supercuspidal representation $\pi$ of $G= \GL(n,F)$, where $F$ is a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic zero, is said to be ``distinguished'' by a subgroup $H$ of $G$ and a quasicharacter $\chi$ of $H$ if $\Hom_H(\pi,\chi)\noteq 0$. There is a suitable global analogue of this notion for and irreducible, automorphic, cuspidal representation associated to $\GL(n)$. Under certain general hypotheses, it is shown in this paper that every distinguished, irreducible, supercuspidal representation may be realized as a local component of a distinguished, irreducible automorphic, cuspidal representation. Applications to the theory of distinguished supercuspidal representations are provided.

It is shown that given a local $L$-function defined by Langlands-Shahidi method, there exists a highly ramified character of the group which when is twisted with the original representation leads to a trivial $L$-function.

Let $H$ be an exceptional, adjoint group of type $E_6$ and split rank 2, over a $p$-adic field $k$. In this article we discuss the restriction of the minimal representation of $H$ to a dual pair $\PD^{\times}\times G_2(k)$, where $D$ is a division algebra of dimension 9 over $k$. In particular, we discover an interesting class of supercuspidal representations of $G_2(k)$.