On the stabilization of relative trace formulae: descent and the fundamental lemma (Q2064468)

The aim of the paper under the review is to study relative orbital integrals, which appear in the geometric expansion of the relative trace formula associated to a general class of symmetric subgroups of connected reductive groups. The author obtains several geometric results for symmetric spaces over a non-Archimedean local field. First a sort of the topological Jordan decomposition for symmetric spaces over a non-Archimedean local field of odd residual characteristic is obtained. Then the author obtains a relative version of the Kazhdan lemma, which has played an important role in the proof of Langlads-Shelstad fundamental lemma. The main application is provided in the case of Friedberg-Jacquet periods. Author develops a relative theory of endoscopy for symmetric spaces of the form \(\mathrm{U}(2n) / \mathrm{U}(n) \times \mathrm{U}(n)\), and proves the endoscopic fundamental lemma for the unit element of the spherical Hecke algebra.