Rigid inner forms over global function fields

Abstract: We construct an fpqc gerbe

m a t h c a l E_{d o t V}

over a global function field

F

such that for a connected reductive group

G

over

F

with finite central subgroup

Z

, the set of

G_{m a t h c a l E_{d o t V}}

-torsors contains a subset

H^{1} (m a t h c a l E_{d o t V}, Z o G)

which allows one to define a global notion of (

Z

-)rigid inner forms. There is a localization map

H^{1} (m a t h c a l E_{d o t V}, Z o G) o H^{1} (m a t h c a l E_{v}, Z o G)

, where the latter parametrizes local rigid inner forms (cf. [Kal16, Dil23]) which allows us organize local rigid inner forms across all places

v

into coherent families. Doing so enables a construction of (conjectural) global

L

-packets and a conjectural formula for the multiplicity of an automorphic representation

p i

in the discrete spectrum of

G

in terms of these

L

-packets. We also show that, for a connected reductive group

G

over a global function field

F

, the adelic transfer factor

D e l t a_{m a t h b b A}

for the ring of adeles

m a t h b b A

of

F

serving an endoscopic datum for

G

decomposes as the product of the normalized local transfer factors from [Dil20].

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