Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2019
We characterize the cuspidal representations of $G_{2}$ whose standard ${\mathcal{L}}$-function admits a pole at $s=2$ as the image of the Rallis–Schiffmann lift for the commuting pair ($\widetilde{\text{SL}}_{2}$, $G_{2}$) in $\widetilde{\text{Sp}}_{14}$. The image consists of non-tempered representations. The main tool is the recent construction, by the second author, of a family of Rankin–Selberg integrals representing the standard ${\mathcal{L}}$-function.
The authors were partially supported by grants 1691/10 and 259/14 from the Israel Science Foundation.