A formal power series over a noncommutative Hecke ring and the rationality of the Hecke series for $GSp_4$

Abstract

The present paper studies Hecke rings derived by the automorphism groups of certain algebras $L_p$ over the ring of $p$-adic integers. Our previous work considered the case where $L_p$ is the Heisenberg Lie algebra (of dimension 3) over the ring of $p$-adic integers. Although this Hecke ring is noncommutative, we showed that a formal power series with coefficients in this Hecke ring satisfies an identity similar to the rationality of the Hecke series for $GL_2$ due to E.~Hecke. In the present paper, we establish an analogous result in the case of the Heisenberg Lie algebra of dimension 5 over the ring of $p$-adic integers. In this case, our identity is similar to the rationality of the Hecke series for $GSp_4$, due to G.~Shimura.