A representation theoretic approach to Kohnen's plus space of modular forms of half integral weight

Abstract

In this paper we develop representation theory of the two fold central extension of SL(2) over the field of 2-adic numbers. As a consequence, we obtain a local Shimura correspondence between the two fold central extension of SL(2) and the linear group PGL(2), which we show to be compatible with the global Shimura correspondence at p=2.