Appearance of the Kashiwara-Saito singularity in the representation theory of $p$-adic $mathop{GL}_{16}$

In 1993 David Vogan proposed a basis for the vector space of stable distributions on $p$-adic groups using the microlocal geometry of moduli spaces of Langlands parameters. In the case of general linear groups, distribution characters of irreducible admissible representations, taken up to equivalence, form a basis for the vector space of stable distributions. In this paper we show that these two bases, one putative, cannot be equal. Specifically, we use the Kashiwara-Saito singularity to find a non-Arthur type irreducible admissible representation of $p$-adic $mathop{GL}_{16}$ whose ABV-packet, as defined in earlier work, contains exactly one other representation; remarkably, this other admissible representation is of Arthur type. In the course of this study we strengthen the main result concerning the Kashiwara-Saito singularity. The irreducible admissible representations in this paper illustrate a fact we found surprising: for general linear groups, while all A-packets are singletons, some ABV-packets are not.

Toward the endoscopic classification of unipotent representations of $p$-adic $G_2$

We begin this paper by reviewing the Langlands correspondence for unipotent representations of the exceptional group of type $G_2$ over a $p$-adic field $F$ and present it in an explicit form. Then we compute all ABV-packets, as defined in [CFM+21] following ideas from Vogans 1993 paper The local Langlands Conjecture, and prove that these packets satisfy properties derived from the expectation that they are generalized A-packets. We attach distributions to ABV-packets for $G_2$ and its endoscopic groups and study a geometric endoscopic transfer of these distributions. This paper builds on earlier work by the same authors.

Arthur packets for $G_2$ and perverse sheaves on cubics

This paper begins the project of defining Arthur packets of all unipotent representations for the $p$-adic exceptional group $G_2$. Here we treat the most interesting case by defining and computing Arthur packets with component group $S_3$. We also show that the distributions attached to these packets are stable, subject to a hypothesis. This is done using a self-contained microlocal analysis of simple equivariant perverse sheaves on the moduli space of homogeneous cubics in two variables. In forthcoming work we will treat the remaining unipotent representations and their endoscopic classification and strengthen our result on stability.

Arthur packets for $p$-adic groups by way of microlocal vanishing cycles of perverse sheaves, with examples

In this article we propose a geometric description of Arthur packets for $p$-adic groups using vanishing cycles of perverse sheaves. Our approach is inspired by the 1992 book by Adams, Barbasch and Vogan on the Langlands classification of admissible representations of real groups and follows the direction indicated by Vogan in his 1993 paper on the Langlands correspondence. Using vanishing cycles, we introduce and study a functor from the category of equivariant perverse sheaves on the moduli space of certain Langlands parameters to local systems on the regular part of the conormal bundle for this variety. In this article we establish the main properties of this functor and show that it plays the role of microlocalization in the work of Adams, Barbasch and Vogan. We use this to define ABV-packets for pure rational forms of $p$-adic groups and propose a geometric description of the transfer coefficients that appear in Arthurs main local result in the endoscopic classification of representations. This article includes conjectures modelled on Vogans work, especially the prediction that Arthur packets are ABV-packets for $p$-adic groups. We gather evidence for these conjectures by verifying them in numerous examples.

From the function-sheaf dictionary to quasicharacters of $p$-adic tori

We consider the rigid monoidal category of character sheaves on a smooth commutative group scheme $G$ over a finite field $k$ and expand the scope of the function-sheaf dictionary from connected commutative algebraic groups to this setting. We find the group of isomorphism classes of character sheaves on $G$ and show that it is an extension of the group of characters of $G(k)$ by a cohomology group determined by the component group scheme of $G$. We also classify all morphisms in the category character sheaves on $G$. As an application, we study character sheaves on Greenberg transforms of locally finite type Neron models of algebraic tori over local fields. This provides a geometrization of quasicharacters of $p$-adic tori.

Geometrization of continuous characters of $mathbb{Z}_p^times$

We define the $p$-adic trace of certain rank-one local systems on the multiplicative group over $p$-adic numbers, using Sekiguchi and Suwas unification of Kummer and Artin-Schrier-Witt theories. Our main observation is that, for every non-negative integer $n$, the $p$-adic trace defines an isomorphism of abelian groups between local systems whose order divides $(p-1)p^n$ and $ell$-adic characters of the multiplicative group of $p$-adic integers of depth less than or equal to $n$.

Toward a Mackey formula for compact restriction of character sheaves

We generalize a result by Cunningham-Salmasian to a Mackey-type formula for the compact restriction of a semisimple perverse sheaf produced by parabolic induction from a character sheaf, under certain conditions on the parahoric group used to define compact restriction. This provides new tools for matching character sheaves with admissible representations.

Character Sheaves of Algebraic Groups Defined over Non-Archimedean Local Fields

This paper concerns character sheaves of connected reductive algebraic groups defined over non-Archimedean local fields and their relation with characters of smooth representations. Although character sheaves were devised with characters of representations of finite groups of Lie type in mind, character sheaves are perfectly well defined for reductive algebraic groups over any algebraically closed field. Nevertheless, the relation between character sheaves of an algebraic group $G$ over an algebraic closure of a field $K$ and characters of representations of $G(K)$ is well understood only when $K$ is a finite field and when $K$ is the field of complex numbers. In this paper we consider the case when $K$ is a non-Archimedean local field and explain how to match certain character sheaves of a connected reductive algebraic group $G$ with virtual representations of $G(K)$. In the final section of the paper we produce examples of character sheaves of general linear groups and matching admissible virtual representations.

Computing genus 2 Hilbert-Siegel modular forms over $Q(sqrt{5})$ via the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence

In this paper we present an algorithm for computing Hecke eigensystems of Hilbert-Siegel cusp forms over real quadratic fields of narrow class number one. We give some illustrative examples using the quadratic field $Q(sqrt{5})$. In those examples, we identify Hilbert-Siegel eigenforms that are possible lifts from Hilbert eigenforms.

Motivic proof of a character formula for SL(2)

We give a motivic proof of a character formula for depth zero supercuspidal representations of $p$-adic SL(2). We begin by finding the virtual Chow motives for the character values of all depth zero supercuspidal representations of $p$-adic SL(2), at topologically unipotent elements. Then we find the virtual Chow motives for the values of the Fourier transform of all regular elliptic orbital integrals with depth zero in their Cartan subalgebra, at topologically nilpotent elements. Finally, we prove a character formula for depth zero supercuspidal representations by showing that the formula corresponds to three identities in the ring of virtual Chow motives over $mathbb{Q}$.