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PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS Vol. 194, No. 2, 2000 THETA CORRESPONDENCE FOR UNITARY GROUPS Dipendra Prasad In this paper we study the theta correspondence for Uni- tary groups o fthe same size over local and global fields. This correspondence has been studied in many cases by several au- thors. We are able to unify and generalise all these known results in terms o ftwo conjectures, one local and the other global. These conjectures are in terms o fthe parametrisation o firreducible admissible representations o fgroups over local fields which are formulated by David Vogan refining Lang- lands parametrization, and which are now called Vogan pa- rameters. In turn, the simple form o fthe conjecture here, gives support to the importance o fVogan’s refinement o Langlands parametrisation. 1. Generalities. Let K be a quadratic extension of a local field k, and let V and W be two finite dimensional Hermitian spaces over K . Let δ ∈ K ∗ be fixed with tr(δ) = 0. Multiplication b δ turns the Hermitian space W into a skew- Hermitian space, and therefore we get a symplectic structure on the k- vector space V ⊗K W , making (U (V ), U (W )) into a dual reductive pair in Sp(V ⊗K W ). In the paper [HKS], Harris, Kudla and Sweet have made a detailed stud yof the C∗-metaplectic covering of Sp(V ⊗K W ) restricted to U (V ) × U (W ). The yprove that the C∗-metaplectic cover of Sp(V ⊗K W ) splits over U (V ) × U (W ) for non-Archimedean local fields, and that the splittings over