We construct a Rankin Selberg integral to represent the exterior cube L function L(π,Λ3,s) of an automorphic cuspidal module π of GL6(${\Bbb A}$F) (where F is a number field). We determine the poles of this L function and find period conditions for the special value L(π,Λ3,1/2). We use the Siegal Weil formula. We also state an analogue of the Gross–Prasad conjecture concerning a criterion for the nonvanishing of L(π,Λ3,1/2).

We study primitive theta functions, which were first introduced by Shintani, in a purely local setting. We investigate a metaplectic representation of U(1) acting on the space of local primitive theta functions and give its explicit irreducible decomposition. As a by-product, we give a new proof of epsilon dichotomy for (U(1),U}(1)).

Let ${\cal S}$(g,N,p) be the Siegel modular variety of principally polarized Abelian varieties of dimension g with a Γ0(p)-level structure and a full N-level structure (where p is a prime not dividing N[ges ]3 and Γ0(p) is the inverse image of a Borel subgroup of Sp(2g,${\Bbb F}$p) in Sp(2g,${\Bbb Z}$)). This variety has a natural integral model over ${\Bbb Z}$[1/N] which is not semi-stable over the prime p if g>1. Using the theory of local models of Rapoport–Zink, we construct a semi-stable integral model of ${\cal S}$(g,N,p) over ${\Bbb Z}$[1/N] for g=2 and g=3. For g=2, our construction differs from de Jong's one though the resulting model is the same.

For bicovariant differential calculi on quantum matrix groups a generalisation of classical notions such as metric tensor, Hodge operator, codifferential and Laplace–Beltrami operator for arbitrary k-forms is given. Under some technical assumptions it is proved that Woronowicz' external algebra of left-invariant differential forms either contains a unique form of maximal degree or it is infinite-dimensional. Using Jucys–Murphy elements of the Hecke algebra, the eigenvalues of the Laplace–Beltrami operator for the Hopf algebra ${\mathcal {O}}$(SLq(N)) are computed.