CONDITIONAL BASE CHANGE FOR UNITARY GROUPS
CONDITIONAL BASE CHANGE FOR UNITARY GROUPS
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单一组的有条件基础变化
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2004
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M. J.
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M. J.
Introduction. It has been known for many years that the stabilization of the Arthur-Selberg trace formula would, or perhaps we should write “will,” have important consequences for the Langlands functoriality program as well as for the study of the Galois representations on the l-adic cohomology of Shimura varieties. At present, full stabilization is still only known for SL(2) and U(3) and their inner forms [LL,R]. The automorphic and arithmetic consequences of stabilization for U(3) form the subject of the influential volume [LR]. Under somewhat restrictive hypotheses, one can sometimes derive the expected corollaries of the stable trace formula. Examples of such “pseudo-stabilization” include Kottwitz’ analysis in [K2] of the zeta functions of certain “simple” Shimura varieties attached to twisted forms of unitary groups over totally real fields, and the proof in [L1] of stable cyclic base change of automorphic representations which are locally Steinberg at at least two places. These conditional results have been used successfully to provide non-trivial examples of compatible systems of l-adic representations attached to certain classes of automorphic representations of GL(n) [C3], and of non-trivial classes of cohomology of S-arithmetic groups [BLS, L1]. Conditional results also suffice for important local applications, such as the local Langlands conjecture for GL(n) [HT, He]. The present article develops a technique for obtaining conditional base change and functorial transfer. Let Un be a unitary group over a number field F attached to a quadratic extension E/F . The technique applies to quadratic base change from Un to GL(n)E , and to transfer between inner forms of unitary groups. Roughly speaking, if π is an automorphic representation of U which is locally supercuspidal at two places of F split in E, then the expected consequences of the stable trace formula hold for π; in particular π admits a base change to a cuspidal automorphic representation of GL(n)E (Theorem 2.2.2). Slightly more general results are available when F is totally real and E is totally imaginary, and when π is of cohomological type. Automorphic descent from GL(n)E to Un can be proved under analogous hypotheses (Theorem 2.4.1, Theorem 3.1.2). Finally, we prove transfer between distinct inner forms of unitary groups (Jacquet-Langlands transfer) under quite general local hypotheses (Theorem 2.1.2 and, in a more precise form, Theorem 3.1.6 and Proposition 3.1.7). As in [L1], all results are obtained from the simple version of the Arthur-Selberg trace formula, in which non-elliptic and non-cuspidal terms are absent. As a principal application, we obtain results similar to those of [C3] and [HT] for the cohomology of Shimura varieties attached to unitary groups of hermitian forms, or rather for the part of the cohomology satisfying the supercuspidality hypotheses (Theorem 3.1.4). An initial motivation for this project was the construction of nontrivial examples of families of nearly equivalent cohomological automorphic forms on unitary groups of hermitian forms, to which the analysis of special values of L-