Some Singular Examples of Relative Langlands Duality

Relative Langlands duality structures the study of automorphic periods around a putative duality between certain group actions of Langlands dual reductive groups. In this article, after giving a self-contained exposition of the relevant ingredients from relative Langlands duality, we examine this proposal for some interesting pairs of singular spaces: one pair arising from the cone of nilpotent (3 x 3)-matrices, and the other pair arising from the nilpotent cone of (2,2,2)-tensors. These relate, respectively, to Rankin–Selberg integrals discovered by Ginzburg and Garrett.