Paley-Wiener theorems for a p-adic spherical variety

TL;DR

This paper establishes Paley-Wiener theorems for Schwartz and Harish-Chandra Schwartz spaces on p-adic spherical varieties, characterizing these spaces via spectral transforms and extending classical results.

Contribution

It proves Paley-Wiener theorems for p-adic spherical varieties, generalizing Harish-Chandra's theorem and advancing the understanding of Bernstein centers.

Findings

Characterization of Schwartz spaces via spectral transforms

Extension of Harish-Chandra's Paley-Wiener theorem

Identification of Bernstein centers for spherical varieties

Abstract

Let S(X) be the Schwartz space of compactly supported smooth functions on the p-adic points of a spherical variety X, and let C(X) be the space of Harish-Chandra Schwartz functions. Under assumptions on the spherical variety, which are satisfied when it is symmetric, we prove Paley-Wiener theorems for the two spaces, characterizing them in terms of their spectral transforms. As a corollary, we get relative analogs of the smooth and tempered Bernstein centers -- rings of multipliers for S(X) and C(X). When X= a reductive group, our theorem for C(X) specializes to the well-known theorem of Harish-Chandra, and our theorem for S(X) corresponds to a first step -- enough to recover the structure of the Bernstein center -- towards the well-known theorem of Bernstein and Heiermann.