Algebraicity of metaplectic $L$-functions

Abstract

Notable results on the special values of $L$-functions of Siegel modular forms were obtained by J. Sturm in the case when the degree $n$ is even and the weight $k$ is an integer. In this paper we extend this method to half-integer weights $k$ and arbitrary degree $n$, determining the algebraic field in which they lie. This method hinges on the Rankin-Selberg method; our extension of this is aided by the theory of half-integral modular forms developed by G. Shimura. In the second half, an analogue of P. B. Garrett's conjecture is proved in this setting, a result that is of independent interest but that bears direct applications to our first results. It determines exactly how the decomposition of modular forms into cusp forms and Eisenstein series preserves algebraicity and, ultimately, the full range of special values.