《On Level-Raising Congruences》.pdf

ON LEVEL-RAISING CONGRUENCES 8 YUVAL Z. FLICKER 0 0 2 Abstract. In this paper we rewrite a work of Sorensen to include non- v trivial types at the infinite places. This work extends results of K. Ribet o and R. Taylor on level-raising for algebraic modular forms on D ×, where N D is a definite quaternion algebra over a totally real field F . We do this for any automorphic representations π of an arbitrary reductive group 5 2 G over F which is compact at infinity. We do not assume π∞ is triv- ¯ ial. If λ is a finite place of Q, and w is a place where πw is unramified ] and πw ≡ 1 (mod λ), then under some mild additional assumptions (we T relax requirements on the relation between w and ℓ which appear in N previous works) we prove the existence of a π˜ ≡ π (mod λ) such that . π˜w has more parahoric fixed vectors than πw . In the case where Gw h has semisimple rank one, we sharpen results of Clozel, Bellaiche and t a Graftieaux according to which π˜w is Steinberg. To provide applications m of the main theorem we consider two examples over F of rank greater [ than one. In the first example we take G to be a unitary group in three variables and a split place w . In the second we take G to be a