Character Sheaves and Depth-zero representations

We re-write the character formul{\ae} of Adler and the second-named author in a form amenable to explicit computations in $p$-adic harmonic analysis, and use them to prove the stability of character sums for a modification of Reeder's conjectural positive-depth, unramified, toral supercuspidal L-packets.

Let G be a connected unipotent group over a finite field F_q with q elements. In this article we propose a definition of L-packets of complex irreducible representations of the finite group G(F_q) and give an explicit description of L-packets in terms of the so-called "admissible pairs" for G. We then apply our results to show that if the centralizer of every geometric point of G is connected, then the dimension of every complex irreducible representation of G(F_q) is a power...

We give a motivic proof of a character formula for depth zero supercuspidal representations of $p$-adic SL(2). We begin by finding the virtual Chow motives for the character values of all depth zero supercuspidal representations of $p$-adic SL(2), at topologically unipotent elements. Then we find the virtual Chow motives for the values of the Fourier transform of all regular elliptic orbital integrals with depth zero in their Cartan subalgebra, at topologically nilpotent elem...

This survey article is an introduction to some of Lusztig's work on the character theory of a finite group of Lie type $G(F_q)$, where $q$ is a power of a prime~$p$. It is partly based on two series of lectures given at the Centre Bernoulli (EPFL) in July 2016 and at a summer school in Les Diablerets in August 2015. Our focus here is on questions related to the parametrization of the irreducible characters and on results which hold without any assumption on~$p$ or~$q$.

Let L be a finite field extension of Q_p and let G be the group of L-rational points of a split connected reductive group over L. We view G as a locally L-analytic group with Lie algebra g. We define a functor from admissible locally analytic G-representations with prescribed infinitesimal character to a category of equivariant sheaves on the Bruhat-Tits building of G. For smooth representations, the corresponding sheaves are closely related to the sheaves constructed by S. S...

With a view to determining character values of finite reductive groups at unipotent elements, we prove a number of results concerning inner products of generalised Gelfand-Graev characters with characteristic functions of character sheaves, here called Lusztig functions. These are used to determine projections of generalised Gelfand-Graev characters to the space of unipo- tent characters, and to the space of characters with a given wave front set. Such projections are express...

In this article we calculate the signature character of certain Hermitian representations of $GL_N(F)$ for a $p$-adic field $F$. We further give a conjectural description for the signature character of unramified representations in terms of Kostka numbers.

In 1976, Deligne and Lusztig realized the representation theory of finite groups of Lie type inside \'etale cohomology of certain algebraic varieties. Recently, a $p$-adic version of this theory started to emerge: there are $p$-adic Deligne-Lusztig spaces, whose cohomology encodes representation theoretic information for $p$-adic groups - for instance, it partially realizes local Langlands correspondence with characteristic zero coefficients. However, the parallel case of coe...

In this thesis, two $\bar{\mathbb{Q}}_\ell$-local systems, $\vphantom{\mathcal{E}}^\circ \mathcal{E}$ and $\vphantom{E}^\circ \mathcal{E}^\prime$ on the regular unipotent subvariety $\mathcal{U}_{0,K}$ of $p$-adic $\operatorname{SL}_2(K)$ are constructed. Making use of the equivalence between $\bar{\mathbb{Q}}_\ell$-local systems and $\ell$-adic representations of the \'etale fundamental group, we prove that these local systems are equivariant with respect to conjugation by $...

Let $G$ be a reductive group over a nonarchimedean local field $F$. In the quest for a classification of irreducible smooth representations of $G$, it is critical to understand the case of supercuspidal representations -- those whose matrix coefficients are compactly supported modulo the center. Progress in understanding these representations has been continuous over the past fifty years. In "tame" cases where the residual characteristic of $F$ is big enough for $G$, J.-K. Yu...