Regular supercuspidal representations

Tasho Kaletha

Published 2016-02-09Version 1

We show that most tame supercuspidal representations of a tamely ramified reductive p-adic group G arise from pairs (S,\theta), where S is a tame elliptic maximal torus of G, and \theta is a character of S satisfying a simple root-theoretic property. We then give a new expression for the roots of unity that appear in the Adler-DeBacker-Spice character formula and use it to show that the formula for the character of such tame supercuspidal representations evaluated at shallow elements bears a striking resemblance to the character formula for discrete series representations of real reductive groups. Finally, we explicitly construct the local Langlands correspondence for these tame supercuspidal representations and prove stability and endoscopic transfer in the case of toral representations. In large residual characteristic this gives a construction of the local Langlands correspondence for almost all supercuspidal representations of reductive p-adic groups.