On the existence of a p-adic metaplectic Tate-type $\widetilde {\gamma}$-factor

Let \mathbbF\mathbb{F} be a p-adic field, let χ be a character of \mathbbF^*\mathbb{F}^{*}, let ψ be a character of \mathbbF\mathbb{F} and let g_y^-1\gamma_{\psi}^{-1} be the normalized Weil factor associated with a character of second degree. We prove here that one can define a meromorphic function (g)\tilde](c,s,y)\widetilde{\gamma}(\chi ,s,\psi) via a similar functional equation to the one used for the definition of the Tate γ-factor replacing the role of the Fourier transform with an integration against y·g_y^-1\psi\cdot\gamma_{\psi}^{-1}. It turns out that γ and (g)\tilde]\widetilde{\gamma} have similar integral representations. Furthermore, (g)\tilde]\widetilde{\gamma} has a relation to Shahidi‘s metaplectic local coefficient which is similar to the relation γ has with (the non-metalpectic) Shahidi‘s local coefficient. Up to an exponential factor, (g)\tilde](c,s,y)\widetilde{\gamma}(\chi,s,\psi) is equal to the ratio \fracg(c²,2s,y)g(c,s+\frac12,y)\frac{\gamma(\chi^{2},2s,\psi)}{\gamma(\chi,s+\frac{1}{2},\psi)}.