The ($\Gamma$-asymptotic) wavefront sets: $GL_n$

TL;DR

This paper introduces $ ext{ extGamma}$-asymptotic wavefront sets for $p$-adic groups, explores their relation to Langlands parameters, and provides new character expansion computations for unipotent representations of $GL_n$.

Contribution

It defines $ ext{ extGamma}$-asymptotic wavefront sets, generalizes wavefront notions, and connects them with Langlands parameters, especially for $GL_n$ unipotent representations.

Findings

$ ext{ extGamma}$-asymptotic wavefront sets relate to Langlands parameters

For $GL_n$, the relation reduces to unipotent representations of twisted Levi subgroups

New computations of Harish-Chandra-Howe coefficients and wavefront sets

Abstract

Let $G$ be a connected reductive $p$-adic group. As verified for unipotent representations, it is expected that there is a close relation between the (Harish-Chandra-Howe) wavefronts sets of irreducible smooth representations and their Langlands parameters in the local Langlands correspondence via the Lusztig-Spaltenstein duality and the Aubert-Zelevinsky duality. In this paper, we define the $\Gamma$-asymptotic wavefront sets generalizing the notion of wavefront sets via the $\Gamma$-asymptotic expansions (in the sense of Kim-Murnaghan), and then study the their relation with the Langlands parameters. When $G=GL_n$, it turns out that this reduces to the corresponding relation of unipotent representations of the appropriate twisted Levi subgroups via Hecke algebra isomorphisms. For unipotent representations of $GL_n$, we also describe the Harish-Chandra-Howe (HCH) local character expansions of irreducible smooth representations using Kazhdan-Lusztig theory, and give another computation of the coefficients in the HCH expansion and the wavefront sets.