Higher ramification and the local Langlands correspondence (Q2358745)

Let \(F\) denote a non-Archimedean local field and write \(\mathcal W_F\) for its Weil group. For a natural number \(n\), write \(\widehat{\mathcal W_F}_n\) for the set of isomorphy classes of irreducible \(n\)-dimensional complex representations of \(\mathcal W_F\). On the other hand, let \(\widehat{\mathrm{GL}_n(F)}\) denote the set of all cuspidal irreducible smooth representations of the totally disconnected group \(\mathrm{GL}_n(F)\). The local Langlands correspondence is a bijection \[ \widehat{\mathrm{GL}_n(F)}\to \widehat{\mathcal W_F}_n \] preserving central characters, duals, L- and \(\varepsilon\)-factors. As the authors of the current paper rightly remark, the existence, yet even a construction of the correspondence does not immediately tell you, how deeper information about the representations is transferred from one side to the other. In the current paer, the authors begin to fill this gap by showing how higher ramification is transferred in the correspondence. Let \(\pi\in \widehat{\mathrm{GL}_n(F)}\) be mapped to \(\sigma \in \widehat{\mathcal W_F}_n\) by the correspondence. The first main result of the paper is that the restriction of \(\sigma\) to a ramification subgroup of \(\mathcal W_F\) is determined by a truncation of the simple character \(\theta_\pi\) contained in \(\pi\), and vice versa. Numerical aspects of the relation are governed by an Herbrandt-like function \(\psi_\theta\) depending on \(\theta_\pi\). The second main result consists in an algorithm for computing \(\psi_\theta\) directly from \(\theta_\pi\). This in particular means that the ramification structure of \(\sigma\) depends on the simple character \(\theta_\pi\) alone.