The spherical Hecke algebra for affine Kac-Moody groups. I (Q661920)

Let \(F\) be a global field and \(\mathbb{A}_F\) its ring of adeles. For a split reductive group \(G\) over \(F\), the classical Langlands duality predicts that irreducible automorphic representations of \(G(\mathbb{A}_F)\) are closely related to homomorphisms from the absolute Galois group \(\mathrm{Gal}_F\) of \(F\) to the Langlands dual group \(\check{G}\). Similarly, if \(G\) is a split reductive group over a local non-archimedean field \(K\), then Langlands duality predicts a relation between irreducible representations of \(G(K)\) and homomorphisms from \(\mathrm{Gal}_K\) to \(\check{G}\). Let \(O\) be the ring of integers in \(K\). The starting point for Langlands duality is the so-called \textit{Satake isomorphism} relating the spherical Hecke algebra of \(G(O)\)-biinvariant compactly supported \(\mathbb{C}\)-valued measures on \(G(K)\) and the complexified Grothendieck ring of the category of finite dimensional representations of \(\check{G}\). The global project of the authors is to develop some sort of Langlands theory in the case when \(G\) is replaced by an affine Kac-Moody group. In this paper the authors define the spherical Hecke algebra for an untwisted affine Kac-Moody group over a local non-archimedean field and prove a generalization of the Satake isomorphism for this algebra, relating it to integrable representations of the Langlands dual affine Kac-Moody group.