The unitary-dual exhaustion conjecture for closures of Arthur representations

Let GG be a classical group over a non-Archimedean local field FF of characteristic zero. Denote by Πu(G)\Pi_u(G) the unitary dual, and by ΠA(G)\Pi_{\overline{A}}(G) and ΠA+,u(G)\Pi_{\overline{A+,\,u}}(G) the closures of the Arthur representations and of the unitary enlarged Arthur representations, respectively.

Unitary-dual exhaustion conjecture.

ΠA(G)=ΠA+,u(G)=Πu(G).\Pi_{\overline{A}}(G)=\Pi_{\overline{A+,\,u}}(G)=\Pi_u(G).

This proposes that every unitary representation of a classical group can be obtained from the indicated Arthur representations by the closure operations. The paper proves equality of the two closure constructions for split symplectic and odd special orthogonal groups and verifies the conjecture in several low-corank cases, but the general assertion remains open.

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Alexander Hazeltine, Dihua Jiang, Baiying Liu, Chi-Heng Lo and Qing Zhang, “On Arthur representations and the unitary dual”, arXiv:2410.11806 (2026).

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