Weakly unramified representations, finite morphisms, and Knapp-Stein \(R\)-groups (Q6050183)

Let \(\mathbf{G}\) be a connected reductive group over a \(p\)-adic field \(F\). Let \(G_1\) be the intersection of \(G = G(F)\) with the kernel of Kottwitz's homomorphism \(\kappa: \mathbf{G}(\breve{F}) \to X^*(\mathbf{Z}(\hat{\mathbf{G}}))_I^\Phi\). The group \(X^w(G)\) of weakly unramfied characters of \(G\) is \(\mathrm{Hom}(G/G_1, \mathbb{C}^{\times})\). It agrees with the group of unramified characters when \(\mathbf{G}\) is simply-connected or unramified over \(F\). The paper extends Keys' description of Knapp-Stein \(R\)-groups of unitary unramified principal series for simply-connected, almost simple \(\mathbf{G}\) to the following setting: \(\mathbf{G}_{\mathrm{der}}\) is simply-connected and almost simple, and the inducing characters of the minimal Levi subgroup are only unitary and weakly unramified; the proof makes use of the transfer of \(R\)-groups for such induced representations across inner twists. Such induced representations are of arithmetic interest as they figure in the Satake isomorphism for representations with parahoric fixed vectors.