Compactness conjecture for Hecke operators

Let GG be a reductive group, let XX be a curve over a local field FF, and let λ0\lambda\ne0. Write VG(λ)V_G(\lambda) for the dense domain on which the Hecke operators are initially defined and HG\mathcal H_G for the Hilbert space of half-densities. For each xXx\in X, choose an identification (ΩX1/2)xC(\Omega_X^{1/2})_x\cong\mathcal C. Compactness conjecture. The operators H^λ(x):VG(λ)HG\widehat{H}_\lambda(x):V_G(\lambda)\to\mathcal H_G extend to commuting compact normal operators Hλ(x)H_\lambda(x) on HG\mathcal H_G, satisfying Hλ(x)=Hw0(λ)(x)H_\lambda(x)^\dagger=H_{-w_0(\lambda)}(x) and having trivial common kernel:

λ,xKerHλ(x)={0}.\bigcap_{\lambda,x}\operatorname{Ker}H_\lambda(x)=\{0\}.

This conjecture would give a discrete decomposition of HG\mathcal H_G into finite-dimensional joint eigenspaces. It is proved in the simplest nontrivial cases, including G=PGL2G=PGL_2 and X=P1X=\mathbb P^1, but is open in general.

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Pavel Etingof, Edward Frenkel and David Kazhdan, “Hecke operators and analytic Langlands correspondence for curves over local fields”, arXiv:2103.01509 (2024).

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