Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We provide an explicit construction of representations in the discrete spectrum of two $p$-adic symmetric spaces. We consider $\text{G}{{\text{L}}_{n}}\left( F \right)\,\times \,\text{G}{{\text{L}}_{n}}\left( F \right)\backslash \text{G}{{\text{L}}_{2n}}\left( F \right)$ and $\text{G}{{\text{L}}_{n}}\left( F \right)\,\backslash \text{G}{{\text{L}}_{n}}\left( E \right)$, where $E$ is a quadratic Galois extension of a nonarchimedean local field $F$ of characteristic zero and odd residual characteristic. The proof of the main result involves an application of a symmetric space version of Casselman’s Criterion for square integrability due to Kato and Takano.