Gross–Reeder root number conjecture for adjoint gamma-factors

Let TGT\subset G be a maximal torus split over FF, with root datum (X(T),Φ(T),X(T),Φ(T))(X(T),\Phi(T),X^{\vee}(T),\Phi^{\vee}(T)), and let G\sphatG^\sphat be the dual group. Define

2ρ=0<αΦ(T)α,2\rho=\sum_{0<\alpha\in\Phi^{\vee}(T)}\alpha,

and let ϵ=2ρ(1)T\epsilon=2\rho(-1)\in T be the resulting central element of GG. For a discrete parameter φ\varphi, write w(φ,Ad)w(\varphi,\operatorname{Ad}) for the root number of the adjoint representation, and let π\pi be the representation associated with φ\varphi. Gross–Reeder's root number conjecture. One should have

w(φ,Ad)w(φ0,Ad)=π(ϵ).\frac{w(\varphi,\operatorname{Ad})}{w(\varphi_0,\operatorname{Ad})}=\pi(\epsilon).

This conjecture predicts the variation of adjoint root numbers across the local Langlands correspondence in terms of the central element determined by the root datum; the source gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Koichi Takase, “On certain supercuspidal representations of SL_n(F) associated with tamely ramified extensions: the formal degree conjecture and the root number conjecture”, arXiv:2109.04642 (2021).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2109.07124, arXiv:2107.02360.

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