On $p$-adic $L$-functions for symplectic representations of GL(N) over number fields

Abstract

Let $F$ be a number field, and $π$ a regular algebraic cuspidal automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}_N(\mathbb{A}_F)$ of symplectic type. When $π$ is spherical at all primes $\mathfrak{p}|p$, we construct a $p$-adic $L$-function attached to any regular non-critical spin $p$-refinement $\tildeπ$ of $π$ to $Q$-parahoric level, where $Q$ is the $(n,n)$-parabolic. More precisely, we construct a distribution $L_p(\tildeπ)$ on the Galois group $\mathrm{Gal}_p$ of the maximal abelian extension of $F$ unramified outside $p\infty$, and show that it interpolates all the standard critical $L$-values of $π$ at $p$ (including, for example, cyclotomic and anticyclotomic variation when $F$ is imaginary quadratic). We show that $L_p(\tildeπ)$ satisfies a natural growth condition; in particular, when $\tildeπ$ is ordinary, $L_p(\tildeπ)$ is a (bounded) measure on $\mathrm{Gal}_p$. As a corollary, when $π$ is unitary, has very regular weight, and is $Q$-ordinary at all $\mathfrak{p}|p$, we deduce non-vanishing $L(π\times(χ\circ N_{F/\mathbb{Q}}),1/2) \neq 0$ of the twisted central value for all but finitely many Dirichlet characters $χ$ of $p$-power conductor.