A note on characters and endoscopy for $p$-adic $\mathrm{SL}_2$

Anne-Marie Aubert, Roger Plymen

Published 2024-10-26Version 1

We consider the depth-zero supercuspidal $L$-packets of $\mathrm{SL}_2$. With the aid of the classical character formulas of Sally-Shalika, we prove the endoscopic character identities. For the depth-zero $L$-packet of cardinality $4$, we find that, in order to comply with the Sally-Shalika formulas, the three endoscopic groups must be paired carefully with semisimple elements in the dual group $\mathrm{PGL}_2(\mathbb{C})$.