| Joint IAS-PU Number Theory Seminar | |
| Topic: | Spectral Factors in Endoscopic Transfer |
| Speaker: | Diana Shelstad |
| Affiliation: | Rutgers, The State Unviersity of New Jersey |
| Date: | Thursday, December 15 |
| Time/Room: | 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101 |
This talk is based on some results for real groups used in Arthur's classification of global packets for classical groups. The setting is twisted endoscopy for a connected reductive algebraic group over the reals. There is a geometric transfer which generates useful test functions on the real points of an endoscopic group. I will discuss some of this, mainly to look at structure of the weights, or transfer factors, attached to pairs of conjugacy classes. Then I will introduce a parallel definition of factors based on representations instead of conjugacy classes. As in the geometric case the factors simplify when a Whittaker normalization is available. Results so far indicate that these spectral factors provide exactly the refined form of dual transfer needed globally.