Distinguished representations
A natural and important question representation theory is to understand how a representation of group restricts to a given subgroup. It was realized, almost three decades ago, that closely related questions in the context of p-adic and adelic groups have significant number theoretic aspects. In the case of p-adic group, one is interesting in finding out which representation of group admit non-trivial linear forms that are invariant under the fixed group of an involution.
Prof. U K Anandavardhanan