  We use the twisted topological trace formula developed in an earlier paper to
understand liftings from symplectic to general linear groups. We analyse the
lift from $\SP_{2g}$ to $\PGL_{2g+1}$ over the ground field $\Q$ in further
detail, and we get a description of the image of this lift for the $L^2$
cohomology of $\SP_{2g}$ (which is related to the intersection cohomology of
the Shimura variety attached to $\GSp_{2g}$) in terms of the Eisenstein
cohomology of the general linear group, whose building constituents are
cuspidal representations of Levi groups. This description may be used to
understand endoscopic and CAP-representations of the symplectic group.
