Endoscopic character identities for depth-zero supercuspidal \(L\)-packets (Q549086)

Under the local Langlands program, to each Langlands parameter of a reductive group \(G\) over a \(p\)-adic field \(F\), a finite set (an \(L\)-packet) of admissible, irreducible representations of \(G(F)\) is assigned. The Langlands functoriality principle asserts that when a Langlands parameter factors through an endoscopic group \(H\), the \(L\)-packet on \(H\) transfers to \(G\). The endoscopic character identities -- which are instances of this principle -- assert that the stable character of the packet on \(H\) can be identified with the unstable character of the packet on \(G\) via endoscopic induction. The local Langlands correspondence was explicitly constructed by \textit{S. DeBacker} and \textit{M. Reeder} in [Ann. Math. (2) 169, No. 3, 795--901 (2009; Zbl 1193.11111)] for pure inner forms of reductive, \(p\)-adic groups and tame Langlands parameters in `general position'. The representations corresponding to the parameters in `general position' in their work are depth-zero supercuspidal representations arising from Deligne-Lusztig representations of the finite reductive quotient. In the paper under review, the author proves the corresponding conjectural endoscopic character identities. As a corollary, the author proves a conjecture of \textit{R. E. Kottwitz} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 278, 289--297 (1983; Zbl 0538.22010)] on sign changes in stable characters on inner forms.