  For a symmetric space (G,H), one is interested in understanding the vector
space of H-invariant linear forms on a representation \pi of G. In particular
an important question is whether or not the dimension of this space is bounded
by one. We cover the known results for the pair (G=R_{E/F}GL(n),H=GL(n)), and
then discuss the corresponding SL(n) case. In this paper, we show that
(G=R_{E/F}SL(n),H=SL(n)) is a Gelfand pair when n is odd. When $n$ is even, the
space of H-invariant forms on \pi can have dimension more than one even when
\pi is supercuspidal. The latter work is joint with Dipendra Prasad.
