Jiang's conjecture on wavefront sets in local Arthur packets

Let G\mathrm G be a connected reductive group over FF and let G=G(F)G=\mathrm G(F). Assume a local Arthur-packet theory for GG. Let Ψ+(G)\Psi^+(G) be the set of local Arthur parameters, let Πψ\Pi_\psi be the packet attached to ψ\psi, and let Oψ\mathcal O_\psi be its geometric nilpotent orbit. Jiang's conjecture. For every ψΨ+(G)\psi\in\Psi^+(G), (i) for every πΠψ\pi\in\Pi_\psi and every Onm(π)\mathcal O\in\overline{\mathfrak n}^{m}(\pi),

OdBV(Oψ),\mathcal O\leq d_{BV}(\mathcal O_\psi),

and (ii) if GG is quasi-split, at least one πΠψ\pi\in\Pi_\psi satisfies

nm(π)={dBV(Oψ)}.\overline{\mathfrak n}^{m}(\pi)=\{d_{BV}(\mathcal O_\psi)\}.

The conjecture generalizes the Shahidi conjecture from tempered LL-packets to arbitrary local Arthur packets. Its status depends on the existence and properties of local Arthur packets and is not established in general.

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Primary source

Alexander Hazeltine, Baiying Liu, Chi-Heng Lo and Freydoon Shahidi, “On the upper bound of wavefront sets of representations of p-adic groups”, arXiv:2403.11976 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1601.01665, arXiv:1309.6240.

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