© 2004 by London Mathematical Society
© The London Mathematical Society
Injectivity, Projectivity and Supercuspidal Representations
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, University of Akron Akron, OH 44325-4002, USA, adler{at}uakron.edu
Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019-0315, USA, aroche{at}math.ou.edu
Received 30 September 2003.
Let G be a reductive p-adic group. Consider the category of smooth (complex) representations of G in which a (fixed) closed cocompact subgroup of the centre acts by a (fixed) character. It is well known that the supercuspidal representations in this category are both injective and projective. It is shown that, conversely, an admissible injective or projective object is necessarily supercuspidal.