Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
An irreducible supercuspidal representation $\pi$ of $G\,=\,\text{GL}\left( n,\,F \right)$, where $F$ is a nonarchimedean local field of characteristic zero, is said to be “distinguished” by a subgroup $H$ of $G$ and a quasicharacter $\text{ }\!\!\chi\!\!\text{ }$ of $H$ if $\text{Ho}{{\text{m}}_{H}}\left( \pi ,\,\text{ }\!\!\chi\!\!\text{ } \right)\,\ne \,0$. There is a suitable global analogue of this notion for an irreducible, automorphic, cuspidal representation associated to $\text{GL}\left( n \right)$. 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.