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.