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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 1995-067

Construction géométrique de représentations de Weil sur un corps fini

José Pantoja and Jorge Soto-Andrade

We construct, by contraction of a suitable complex vector bundle, the Weil representation of the finite symplectic group $Sp(A)$. We give an explicit description of the space of all lagrangian subspaces, which we use to compute the cocycle of our representation in terms of a geometric Gauss sum. We recover in this way previously constructed generalized Weil representations by restriction of our representation to an appropiate embedding of $SL(n) $ into $Sp(A)$.