Simple local trace formulas for unramified \(p\)-adic groups (Q2644780)

Let \(G\) be a connected unramified semi-simple group over a \(p\)-adic field \(F\). In this note, we compute a (Macdonald-)Plancherel-type formula: \[ \int_{G(F)\times G(F)}f(h)\phi (g^{-1}hg)dgdh=\int f^{\vee}(\chi)I(\chi,\phi)d\mu (\chi). \] Here \(f\) is a spherical function, \(f^{\vee}\) is its Satake transform, and \(\phi\) is a smooth function supported on the elliptic set. For this, we use the Geometrical Lemma of Bernstein and Zelevinsky, Macdonald's Plancherel formula, Macdonald's formula for the spherical function, results of Casselman on intertwining operators of the unramified series, and a combinatorial lemma of Arthur. This derivation follows a procedure of Waldspurger rather closely, where the case of \(GL(n)\) was worked out in detail. We may rewrite this formula as \(\int_{G(F)}f(g^{-1}\gamma g)dg=\int f^{\vee}(\chi)I(\chi,\gamma)d\mu (\chi),\) for \(\gamma\) elliptic regular in \(G(F)\) and \(f\) spherical. Here \(I(\chi,\gamma)\) is a rational function on the support of the Plancherel measure (regarded as a compact complex analytic variety).