Mathematics – Representation Theory
Scientific paper
2006-06-06
Mathematics
Representation Theory
Final version, to appear in Compositio Mathematica
Scientific paper
The description of irreducible representations of a group G can be seen as a question in harmonic analysis; namely, decomposing a suitable space of functions on G into irreducibles for the action of G x G by left and right multiplication. For a split p-adic reductive group G over a local non-archimedean field, unramified irreducible smooth representations are in bijection with semisimple conjugacy classes in the ``Langlands dual'' group. We generalize this description to an arbitrary spherical variety X of G as follows: Irreducible unramified quotients of the space $C_c^\infty(X)$ are in natural ``almost bijection'' with a number of copies of $A_X^*/W_X$, the quotient of a complex torus by the ``little Weyl group'' of X. This leads to a description of the Hecke module of unramified vectors (a weak analog of geometric results of Gaitsgory and Nadler), and an understanding of the phenomenon that representations ``distinguished'' by certain subgroups are functorial lifts. In the course of the proof, rationality properties of spherical varieties are examined and a new interpretation is given for the action, defined by F. Knop, of the Weyl group on the set of Borel orbits.
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