Ben-Zvi–Sakellaridis–Venkatesh period formula for spherical varieties

Assume that Mˇ=TXˇ\check{M}=T^*\check{X}, where Xˇ\check{X} is a Gˇ\check{G}-spherical variety. Let π\pi be a tempered, everywhere unramified automorphic representation of G(A)G(\mathbb A) with LL-parameter ϕ\phi. Suppose that ϕ\phi has only finitely many fixed points {x1,,xr}\{x_1,\ldots,x_r\} on Xˇ\check{X}. For a suitably normalized spherical vector fπf\in\pi, Ben-Zvi–Sakellaridis–Venkatesh conjecture.

PM(f)iL(0,(TxiXˇ)shear).\mathcal{P}_M(f)\sim\sum_i L\bigl(0,(T_{x_i}\check{X})^{\mathrm{shear}}\bigr).

This is a proposed relation between automorphic periods and special values of LL-functions in the relative Langlands program. The paper's abstract states that the formula is confirmed for certain cuspidal Eisenstein series, but the general statement presented here is not resolved by the supplied source.

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Weixiao Lu and Guodong Xi, “Periods detecting Eisenstein series and sums of L-values I”, arXiv:2510.12446 (2025).

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