A local trace formula
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: A local trace formula
zbMATH Open document ID: 0741.22013
DOI: 10.1007/BF02699256
author: James Arthur
published in: Publications Mathématiques
publication date: 1992-06-26T00:00:00Z
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review text: This paper develops an idea that was put forward about 10 years ago by D. A. Kazhdan. According to this for a locally compact group \(G\) the diagonal embedding of \(G\) into \(G\times G\) is analogous to that of a discrete group \(\Gamma\) into a locally compact group \(H\). In particular if \(F\) is a local field and \(G\) consists of the \(F\)-points of a linear reductive group defined over \(F\) then the decomposition of \(L^ 2(G\setminus G\times G)\) into irreducible representations is given by Harish-Chandra's Plancherel theorem. The spectrum consists of a discrete part and a continuous part. One can therefore ask for a description of the character of the representation on the discrete part, analogous to the formula given by the Selberg trace formula. If \(G\) is compact then the formula follows from the Peter-Weyl theorem. The author solves precisely this problem. His final formula is an identity between a sum of distributions parametrized by elliptic (and so semisimple) conjugacy classes in \(G\) and in the Levi components of its parabolic subgroups, and a sum of distributions parametrized by the discrete spectrum of \(G\) and also that of the Levi components of the parabolic subgroups. The author points out that the distributions are not invariant except in some special cases but asserts that it is not difficult to find an invariant form. The proof of the formula makes use of Harish-Chandra's theory and techniques developed by the author in his work on the general trace formula.
reviewed by: Samuel James Patterson
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11F72
zbMATH DE Number: 22761
zbMATH Keywords: diagonal embedding
zbMATH Keywords: local field
zbMATH Keywords: linear reductive group
zbMATH Keywords: irreducible representations
zbMATH Keywords: Selberg trace formula
zbMATH Keywords: distributions
zbMATH Keywords: discrete spectrum
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