Eisenstein Series on Metaplectic Covers and Multiple Dirichlet Series

Abstract

We computed the first Whittaker coefficient of an Eisenstein series on a global metaplectic group induced from the torus and related the result with a Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series attached to the (dual) root system of the group under a mild assumption on the root system and the degree of the metaplectic cover. This confirms a conjecture of Brubaker-Bump-Friedberg.