endoscopy theory of automorphic forms.pdf

Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians Hyderabad, India, 2010 Endoscopy Theory of Automorphic Forms Ngˆo Bao Chˆau∗ Abstract Historically, Langlands has introduced the theory of endoscopy in order to measure the failure of automorphic forms from being distinguished by their L-functions as well as the defect of stability in the Arthur-Selberg trace formula and -adic cohomology of Shimura varieties. However, the number of impor- tant achievements in the domain of automorphic forms based on the idea of endoscopy has been growing impressively recently. Among these, we will report on Arthur’s classification of automorphic representations of classical groups and recent progress on the determination of -adic galois representations attached to Shimura varieties originating from Kottwitz’s work. These results have now become unconditional; in particular, due to recent progress on local harmonic analysis. Among these developments, we will report on Waldspurger’s work on the transfer conjecture and the proof of the fundamental lemma. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). Main: 11F70; Secondary: 14K10 Keywords. Automorphic forms, endoscopy, transfer conjecture, fundamental lemma, Hitchin fibration. 1. Langlands’ Functoriality Conjecture This section contains an introduction of the functoriality principle conjectured by Langlands in [39]. 1.1. L-functions of Dirichlet and Artin. The proof by Dirichlet for the infiniteness of prime numbers in an arithmetic progression of the form m + Nx for some fixed integers m, N with (m, N ) = 1, was a triumph of ∗Supported by the Institute for Advanced Study, the NSF and the Symonyi foundation. School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ 08540 USA. D´epartement de math´ematiques, Universit´e Paris-Sud, 91405