Arthur's packet conjectures for real reductive groups

Let ψΨ(GΓ)\psi\in\Psi({}^{\vee}G^{\Gamma}) be an Arthur parameter, let φψ\varphi_\psi be its associated Langlands parameter, and let Π(G)φ\Pi(G)_\varphi denote the corresponding LL-packet. Define

Aψ=Com(StabG(ψ)),A_\psi=\operatorname{Com}(\operatorname{Stab}_{{}^{\vee}G}(\psi)),

the component group of the stabilizer of ψ\psi. Arthur's packet conjectures. For each ψ\psi, there should be a set Π(G)ψΠ(G)\Pi(G)_\psi\subset\Pi(G) and a function

χψ ⁣:Π(G)ψ{nonzero finite-dimensional representations of Aψ}\chi_\psi\colon\Pi(G)_\psi\to\{\text{nonzero finite-dimensional representations of }A_\psi\}

such that Π(G)φψΠ(G)ψ\Pi(G)_{\varphi_\psi}\subseteq\Pi(G)_\psi, the virtual representation

ηψ(1)=πΠ(G)ψϵ(π)dim(χψ(π))π\eta_\psi(1)=\sum_{\pi\in\Pi(G)_\psi}\epsilon(\pi)\dim(\chi_\psi(\pi))\pi

is stable, the analogous virtual representations

ηψ(s)=πΠ(G)ψϵ(π)Tr(χψ(π)(s))π\eta_\psi(s)=\sum_{\pi\in\Pi(G)_\psi}\epsilon(\pi)\operatorname{Tr}(\chi_\psi(\pi)(s))\pi

are defined for sAψs\in A_\psi, and every member of Π(G)ψ\Pi(G)_\psi is unitary. Adams, Barbasch, and Vogan proved that their definitions satisfy most of these conjectures, including (i) and (ii), so this candidate is solved as stated in the source.

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Primary source

Jeffrey Adams, Andrei Ionov, Lucas Mason-Brown and David Vogan, “The Unitarity of Arthur Packets for Real Reductive Groups”, arXiv:2606.01609 (2026).

Additional references

11 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2602.19382, arXiv:2405.17375, arXiv:2309.12413, arXiv:2210.00251, arXiv:2204.04994, arXiv:2202.03585, arXiv:2111.07591, arXiv:2103.11538, arXiv:1807.03988, arXiv:1207.0724.

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