A Plancherel formula for the Hecke algebra of a \(p\)-adic reductive group (Q5954614)

A Paley-Wiener theorem for a \(p\)-adic reductive group -- first proved by J. Bernstein (1980's, unpublished) -- is proven using Waldspurger's recent exposition of Harish-Chandra's Plancherel's formula (to appear). The classical Paley-Wiener theorem describes the image of the Fourier transform. Bernstein's representation theoretic statement characterizes the functions on the variety of representations \(\pi\) which are equal to convolution operators \(\pi\mapsto\pi(f)\) for some test function \(f\) in \(C_c^\infty(G)\). Here \(\pi\) is described as induced, of the form Ind\({}^G_P(\sigma\chi)\), where \(\sigma\) is a cuspidal representation of the standard parabolic subgroup of the parabolic subgroup \(P\), and \(\chi\) ranges over the torus of unramified characters of the maximal split torus in the center of \(M\). A useful application of the Paley-Wiener theorem is the Trace Paley-Wiener theorem, which characterizes the complex valued functions of the form \(\pi\mapsto\text{tr}\pi(f)\). This is used in the study of orbital integrals. See \textit{J. Bernstein, P. Deligne} and \textit{D. Kazhdan} [J. Anal. Math. 47, 180-192 (1986; Zbl 0634.22011)], for the trace PW-theorem; \textit{Y. Flicker} [J. Analyse Math. 49, 135-202 (1987; Zbl 0656.10024), part I, sect. 7], for a twisted analogue, and part III for applications to orbital integrals, as well as \textit{Y. Flicker} [J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 5, 107-122 (1990; Zbl 0722.11028)], for more such applications. A twisted analogue of Bernstein's geometric proof of both the trace PW-theorem and Kazhdan's density theorem is in \textit{Y. Flicker} [Bernstein isomorphism and good forms, \(K\)-Theory and Algebraic Geometry: Connections with Quadratic Forms and Division Algebras, 1992 Summer Research Institute, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 58, Part II, 171-196 (1995; Zbl 0840.22031)].