scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1099110
adelicendoscopyLanglands functorialityreciprocity lawsrepresentationsspectral decompositionstable conjugacytrace formula
Representation-theoretic methods; automorphic representations over local and global fields (11F70) Spectral theory; trace formulas (e.g., that of Selberg) (11F72) Langlands-Weil conjectures, nonabelian class field theory (11R39) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over global fields and adèle rings (22E55)
We mostly quote from the paper. This expository article attempts ``to persuade a reader that the theory was created in response to some very natural problems in harmonic analysis. ``A major goal is to prove precise reciprocity laws relating [multiplicities] \dots for representations \dots of different groups. ``The most general pairs \((G,G')\) for which such reciprocity laws should exist are given by Langlands' functoriality conjecture [\textit{R. Langlands}, Lect. Notes Math. 170, 18-61 (1970; Zbl 0225.14022); Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 61, 457-471 (1997)]. The theory of endoscopy is designed to deal with those cases for which the adelic trace formula is suited. ``\textit{D. Shelstad} \dots{} completed the theory for real groups [Ann. Sci. Ec. Norm. Super., IV. Ser. 12, 1-31 (1979; Zbl 0433.22006); Can. J. Math. 33, 513-558 (1981; Zbl 0468.22008); Math. Ann. 259, 385-430 (1982; Zbl 0506.22014)], by showing among other things that the relationship of \(L\)-equivalence on the irreducible tempered characters was indeed dual, in a very precise sense, to the relationship of stable conjugacy on the strongly regular conjugacy classes. ``Returning to the trace formula \dots. The first group to be investigated was SL(2). \textit{J.-P. Labesse} and \textit{R. Langlands} [Can. J. Math. 31, 726-785 (1979; Zbl 0421.12014)] solved the problem for the anisotropic inner forms of this group (as well as for SL(2) itself), and showed that the solution had remarkable implications for the spectral decomposition. In the general case, \textit{R. Langlands} [Publ. Math. Univ. Paris VII, 13 (1982; Zbl 0532.22017)] was also able to solve the problem, under the assumption of two conjectures in local harmonic analysis. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0878.00050].
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