On the Waldspurger Formula and the Metaplectic Ramanujan Conjecture over Number Fields

Abstract

In this paper, by inputting the Bessel identities over the complex field in previous work of the authors, the Waldspurger formula of Baruch and Mao is extended from totally real fields to arbitrary number fields. This is applied to give a non-trivial bound towards the Ramanujan conjecture for automorphic forms of the metaplectic group $\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}_2$ for the first time in the generality of arbitrary number fields.